WITT , C.

Trench-parallel extensional strain resulting from the northward drift of the North Andean block has controlled the tectonic evolution of the Gulf of Guayaquil-Tumbes Basin, at least for the past ∼1.8-1.6 Ma. Industrial multichannel seismic and well data document that E-W to ENE, low-angle detachment normal faults, the Posorja and Jambelí...

Along the Western Cordillera of Ecuador, fault-bounded ophiolites derived from the Late Cretaceous Caribbean Large Igneous Province (CLIP) have provided key petrotectonic indicators that outline the nature and the mechanism of continental growth in this region. However, most of the forearc basement across Western Ecuador is buried under...

Tectonics, v. 25, n. 3, p. 22 pp, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004TC001723

Rare in situ pore pressure and temperature data sets collected over more than one decade in a submarine landslide-prone area off Nice (Southeast France) have been used to characterize a transient groundwater exchange between a coastal confined aquifer and the nearshore shallow-water submarine shelf. The near-coast study zone is highly exposed...

Selected high-resolution seismic-reflection profiles and multibeam bathymetry acquired along the convergent Ecuador margin during the ATACAMES cruise on onboard the R/V L'Atalante (Jan.15–Feb.18, 2012) allow a preliminary evaluation of the neotectonic development and stratigraphic evolution of the margin based on the sismo-stratigraphic...