A 3D-relief map of the Andean tectonic setting (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

A 3D-relief map of the Andean tectonic setting

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A 3D-relief map illustrating how the submerged east-west trending Juan Fernandez Ridge may act as a barrier to northward-migrating trench sediments. The Juan Fernandez Ridge is part of the oceanic Nazca Plate, left, which is subducting under the South American continental plate, right.

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Graphic courtesy Jiashun Hu

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