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The main part of the basement of the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes is formed by the remnants of a Hercynian intracratonic range in which some elements of the Precambrian basement are reworked. The Hercynian sedimentary prism is made of thick detrital Lower Paleozoic sediments, which are partly flysch-like but seem to be never associated with ophiolites. Those sediments were strongly disturbed by the Upper Devonian « Eohercynian » folding ; they display close folds with axial-plane cleavage which result of at least two subphases of deformation, in some areas a greenschist facies metamorphism is associated with the folds. On the whole the range does not show any preferential vergence. The Eohercynian folded complex and its unconformable caver of Carboniferous and Lower and Middle Permian sediments are reworked at the end of the Middle Permian by the Late Hercynian movements which in Peru a...

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The peruano•bolivian segment of the Andes is about 2500 km long and its direction is NW-SE north of 18° S, submeridian further south. Its frame made of precambrian and hercynian folded material, constitutes a sialic basement for the Andean orogenic belt. From a stratigraphical point of view, the peruano-bolivian Andes appear as an intracratonic chain, where continental or neritic series prevail. The paleogeographic evolution is controlled by a system of two or three basins separated by rises and generally oriented parallel to the future chain; its most internal element is a high zone, where an intense volcanic activity has been remarkably constant in time and. space during the Mesozoic. The chain built up through three brief and homo•axial tectonic phases occurring respectively at the end of the Cretaceous, the end of the Eocene and the mid•Pliocene, that develop a moderate foldin...