The Cochabamba Fault Zone or Cochabamba Shear Zone (Spanish: Zona de falla de Cochabamba) is an east-southeast trending zone of sinistral strike-slip faults near the city of Cochabamba in the Bolivian Andes. The movements along Cochabamba Fault Zone are related to the bend in the Andes from running in a north-west direction to a north–south direction at this latitude. The compression of the crust at the Arica Elbow causes part of the thrust belt in the Bolivian Andes to acquire a lateral movement to escape from the compression taking place along the elbow axis.
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References
- Dewey, J.F; Lamb, S.H (1992), "Active tectonics of the Andes", Tectonophysics, 205 (1–3): 79–95, doi:10.1016/0040-1951(92)90419-7
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