@article{fdi:010072797, title = {{R}ole of erosion and isostasy in the {C}ordillera {B}lanca uplift : insights from landscape evolution modeling (northern {P}eru, {A}ndes)}, author = {{M}argirier, {A}. and {B}raun, {J}. and {R}obert, {X}avier and {A}udin, {L}aurence}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{T}he processes driving uplift and exhumation of the highest {P}eruvian peaks (the {C}ordillera {B}lanca) are not well understood. {U}plift and exhumation seem closely linked to the formation and movement on the {C}ordillera {B}lanca normal fault ({CBNF}) that delimits and shapes the western flank of the {C}ordillera {B}lanca. {S}everal models have been proposed to explain the presence of this major normal fault in a compressional setting, but the {CBNF} and the {C}ordillera {B}lanca recent rapid uplift remain enigmatic. {W}hereas the {C}ordillera {B}lanca morphology demonstrates important erosion and thus a significant mass of rocks removal, the impact of erosion and isostasy on the evolution of the {C}ordillera {B}lanca uplift rates has never been explored. {W}e address the role of erosion and associated flexural rebound in the uplift and exhumation of the {C}ordillera {B}lanca with numerical modeling of landscape evolution. {W}e perform inversions of the broad features of the present-day topography, total exhumation and thermochronological data using a landscape evolution model ({F}ast{S}cape) to provide constraints on the erosion efficiency factor, the uplift rate and the temperature gradient. {O}ur results evidence the not negligible contribution of erosion and associated flexural rebound to the uplift of the {C}ordillera {B}lanca and allow us to question the models previously proposed for the formation of the {CBNF}.}, keywords = {{R}ock uplift ; {I}sostatic effect of eroding a denser rock mass ; {N}ormal fault ; {L}ow-temperature thermochronology ; {N}umerical modeling of the landscape evolution ; {C}ordillera {B}lanca ; {P}eruvian {A}ndes ; {PEROU} ; {ANDES} ; {CORDILLERA} {BLANCA}}, booktitle = {}, journal = {{T}ectonophysics}, volume = {728}, numero = {}, pages = {119--129}, ISSN = {0040-1951}, year = {2018}, DOI = {10.1016/j.tecto.2018.02.009}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010072797}, }