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Although the Peruvian Andes provide no evidence of the widespread, strong deformation which might be expected in a tectonic belt widely held to overlie a zone of oceanic subduction, consideration of the tectonic and magmatic history shows that the occurrence of large scale, vertical block faulting in that region is not incompatible with a plate tectonic model.
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Myers, J. Vertical crustal movements of the Andes in Peru. Nature 254, 672–674 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/254672a0
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