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depths of 15 to 35 km (Figure 5) are likely to be associ-
ated to the mentioned inverted normal faults within the
Southern Precordillera and the Cerrilladas Pedemontanas
occidental branch. Those faults, or some of their subsidi-
aries, now re-inverted as normal (at least transitorily), are
not exactly placed on the Chilenia-Cuyania suture but are
related to Cuyo basin Triassic extension.
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