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Reynaldo Charrier

Reynaldo Charrier

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38
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6002
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6441
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Overview

Reynaldo Charrier is affiliated with Andrés Bello University in Chile and has made contributions primarily in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several subfields including Geophysics, Paleontology, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, and Ocean Engineering.

The scientist's body of work includes investigations into geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and tectonic studies in Latin America, geochemistry and geologic mapping, as well as geophysical and geoelectrical methods and geophysical methods and applications.

Frequent co-authors of Reynaldo Charrier include Marcia Muñoz, Marcelo Farías, Pamela Jara, C. Mark Fanning, and Felipe Tapia, reflecting a collaborative research approach across multiple projects.

Charrier has published papers in a variety of scientific journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • The First Andean Compressive Tectonic Phase: Sedimentologic and Structural Analysis of Mid-Cretaceous Deposits in the Coastal Cordillera, Central Chile (32°50'S), 2020, Tectonics
  • Unravelling geological controls on groundwater flow and surface water-groundwater interaction in mountain systems: A multi-disciplinary approach, 2023, Journal of Hydrology
  • New Chinchillid Rodents (Hystricognathi: Caviomorpha) from Northern Chile and Bolivia Fill a 17-Million-Year Gap in the Pan-Chinchilline Fossil Record, 2021, Journal of Mammalian Evolution
  • Influence of the orientation of cohesive blocks upon the structural grain of fold-and-thrust belts: An appraisal by means of analogue modeling, 2020, Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • INFLUENCE OF GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN THE COSMOVISION OF THE MAPUCHE NATIVE PEOPLE IN SOUTH CENTRAL CHILE, 2021, Earth Sciences History

Charrier has frequently published in the Journal of South American Earth Sciences and Andean Geology, along with contributions to the Journal of Hydrology, Tectonics, and Journal of Mammalian Evolution.

Best Publications

  • Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Andean Orogen in Chile

    Reynaldo Charrier;Luisa Pinto;María Pía Rodríguez

  • Evidence for Cenozoic extensional basin development and tectonic inversion south of the flat-slab segment, southern Central Andes, Chile (33°–36°S.L.)

    R Charrier;O Baeza;S Elgueta;J.J Flynn

  • Late Cenozoic deformation and uplift of the western flank of the Altiplano: Evidence from the depositional, tectonic, and geomorphologic evolution and shallow seismic activity (northern Chile at 19°30′S)

    Marcelo Farías;Marcelo Farías;Reynaldo Charrier;Diana Comte;Joseph Martinod

  • The Tinguiririca Fauna, Chile: Biochronology, paleoecology, biogeography, and a new earliest Oligocene South American Land Mammal 'Age'

    John J Flynn;André R Wyss;Darin A Croft;Reynaldo Charrier

  • Late Miocene high and rapid surface uplift and its erosional response in the Andes of central Chile (33°–35°S)

    Marcelo Farías;Marcelo Farías;Reynaldo Charrier;Sébastien Carretier;Joseph Martinod

  • Crustal‐scale structural architecture in central Chile based on seismicity and surface geology: Implications for Andean mountain building

    Marcelo Farías;Marcelo Farías;Diana Comte;Reynaldo Charrier;Joseph Martinod

  • South America's earliest rodent and recognition of a new interval of mammalian evolution

    André R. Wyss;John J. Flynn;Mark A. Norell;Carl C. Swisher

  • Uplift of the western border of the Altiplano on a west-vergent thrust system, Northern Chile

    Nelson Muñoz;Reynaldo Charrier

  • New evidence for late mesozoic-early Cenozoic evolution of the Chilean Andes in the upper Tinguiririca valley (35 °S), central Chile

    Reynaldo Charrier;Andre R. Wyss;John J. Flynn;Carl C. Swisher

  • Zircon Trace Element and O–Hf Isotope Analyses of Mineralized Intrusions from El Teniente Ore Deposit, Chilean Andes: Constraints on the Source and Magmatic Evolution of Porphyry Cu–Mo Related Magmas

    Marcia Munoz;R. Charrier;Christopher Fanning;Victor Maksaev

  • Slope and climate variability control of erosion in the Andes of central Chile

    Sébastien Carretier;V. Regard;R. Vassallo;G. Aguilar

  • A geomorphological approach to determining the Neogene to Recent tectonic deformation in the Coastal Cordillera of northern Chile (Atacama)

    R Riquelme;J Martinod;J Martinod;G Hérail;G Hérail;J Darrozes

  • Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Andean Orogen between 31 and 37°S (Chile and Western Argentina)

    Reynaldo Charrier;Victor Alberto Ramos;Felipe Tapia;Lucía Sagripanti

  • An Early Miocene anthropoid skull from the Chilean Andes.

    John J. Flynn;André R. Wyss;Reynaldo Charrier;Carl C. Swisher

  • Geochronology of Miocene plutons and exhumation history of the El Teniente region, Central Chile (34-35°8)

    Andrew C. Kurtz;Suzanne M. Kay;Reynaldo Charrier;Edward Farrar

  • Evolución tectónica, paleogeográfica y metalogénica durante el Cenozoico en los Andes de Chile norte y central e implicaciones para las regiones adyacentes de Bolivia y Argentina

    Reynaldo Charrier;Marcelo Farías;Víctor Maksaev

  • Chronologic implications of new Miocene mammals from the Cura-Mallín and Trapa Trapa formations, Laguna del Laja area, south central Chile

    John J. Flynn;Reynaldo Charrier;Darin A. Croft;Phillip B. Gans

  • The Abanico extensional basin: Regional extension, chronology of tectonic inversion and relation to shallow seismic activity and Andean uplift

    Reynaldo Charrier;Macarena Bustamante;Diana Comte;Sara Elgueta

  • Late Cenozoic geomorphologic signal of Andean forearc deformation and tilting associated with the uplift and climate changes of the Southern Atacama Desert (26°S-28°S)

    Rodrigo Riquelme;Rodrigo Riquelme;Gérard Hérail;Joseph Martinod;Joseph Martinod;Reynaldo Charrier

  • PETROCHEMISTRY AND AGE OF RHYOLITIC PYROCLASTIC FLOWS WHICH OCCUR ALONG THE DRAINAGE VALLEYS OF THE RIO MAIPO AND RIO CACHAPOAL (CHILE) AND THE RIO YAUCHA ANO RIO PAPAGAYOS (ARGENTINA)

    Charles R. Stern;Hassan Amini;Reynaldo Charrier;Estanislao Godoy

Frequent Co-Authors

John J. Flynn
John J. Flynn American Museum of Natural History
Gérard Hérail
Gérard Hérail Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Joseph Martinod
Joseph Martinod University of Savoy Mont Blanc - Chambery
Sébastien Carretier
Sébastien Carretier Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Vincent Regard
Vincent Regard Paul Sabatier University
Carl C. Swisher
Carl C. Swisher Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Francisco Hervé
Francisco Hervé Andrés Bello University
Malcolm C. McKenna
Malcolm C. McKenna American Museum of Natural History
Marcelo H. Garcia
Marcelo H. Garcia University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mark A. Norell
Mark A. Norell American Museum of Natural History

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