- To chronicle the exhumation and deformation history across the Bolivian Andes eastern flank.
APPROACH:
(A) To quantify exhumation both across and along strike of the thrust belt
(B) To use the exhumation histories to better constrain the history of plateau evolution and uplift
METHODS:
(A) Apatite and zircon fission-track and zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology
(B) Inverse thermal history modeling
(C) Integration with thrust belt balanced sections and their kinematic reconstructions
(D) Plio-Quaternary sediment budget and mass balance with mapping and GIS
(E) Synthesis of geologic constraints on Andean Plateau evolution