Dolores-Guayaquil Megashear
The Dolores-Guayaquil Megashear (Spanish: Megafalla Dolores-Guayaquil) is a first-order shear zone and fault zone in Northern South America.[1] The megashear runs from the Gulf of Guayaquil in southwestern Ecuador, through Colombia, to Dolores in Venezuela.
See also
- Andean Volcanic Belt
References
- ^ Lavenu, A. (2006), "Andean neotectonics between 1°N and 47°S (Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile): A review", Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 61 (4): 504–524
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Major South American geological features
- Antarctic
- Caribbean
- Cocos
- Coiba
- Malpelo
- Nazca
- North Andes
- Scotia
- South American
- Aguapeí
- Amazon Rift
- Asunción Rift
- Cuyo Rift
- Espino
- Neuquén Rifts
- Paramirim
- Salta Rifts
- Altiplano
- Amazon
- Andean foreland
- Central Brazil
- Chaco
- Colorado
- Cuyo
- Eastern Venezuela
- Golfo San Jorge
- Magallanes
- Malvinas
- Neuquén
- Pantanal
- Paraíba
- Paraná
- Salta
- Solimões
- Andean
- Brasiliano
- Cariri Velhos
- Chonide
- Famatinian
- Gondwanide
- Juruá
- Pampean
- San Rafael
- Sunsás
- Terra Australis
- Tilcarian
- Bolivian Tin Belt
- Chilean Iron Belt
- Deseado Massif
- El Indio Gold Belt
- El Mutún
- Iron Quadrangle
- Lithium Triangle
- Pampean Pegmatite Province
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