Download or read book The Andes written by Onno Oncken and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first comprehensive overview of a complete subduction orogen, the Andes. To date the results provide the densest and most highly resolved geophysical image of an active subduction orogen.