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ONCKEN, O., CHONG, G., FRANZ, G., GIESE, P., GOTZE, H.-J., RAMOS, V. A., STRECKER, M. R. & WIGGER, P. (eds) 2006. The Andes. Active Subduction Orogeny. Frontiers in Earth Sciences Series. xxii + 569 pp. + CD-ROM.

Berlin, Heidelberg, Dordrecht: Springer-Verlag. Price Euros 149.95, US $189.00, £115.50 (hard covers). ISBN 9783 540 24329 8.

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In the past 15 years a major research programme has been carried out in the central Andes, funded principally by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) leadership by prominent German geoscientists and involving the collaboration of universities and geological surveys in Chile, Bolivia and Argentina: Collaborative Research Centre SFB 267 ‘Deformation processes in the Andes’ 1993–2005. Multidisciplinary research, which has included an important element on the collection and interpretation of new geophysical data, began in a broad transect through the Altiplano–Puna region (~16–28° S) and continued for the final six years in the south-central Andes (~35–42° S). Many of the results of the project have appeared . . . [Full Text of this Article]