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Departamento Ciencias de la Tierra

Profesor Titular

Alfonso Encinas Martin

GRADOS ACADÉMICOS

  • Licenciado en Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1993).

  • Doctor en Ciencias Mención Geología, Universidad de Chile (2006).

  • Postdoctorado 2006-2008 realizado en el IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) y la Universidad de Concepción.

ESPECIALIZACIÓN

  • Análisis de Cuencas.

  • Sedimentología.

  • Tectónica

  • Icnología.

  • Paleontología.

INTERESES

Fundamentalmente, evolución tectono-sedimentaria de las cuencas Mesozoicas y Cenozoicas en Chile y Argentina.

ASIGNATURAS PREGRADO

  • Estratigrafía y ambientes sedimentarios continentales

  • Estratigrafía y ambientes sedimentarios marinos.

ASIGNATURAS POSTGRADO

  • Geología, procesos y recursos del margen andino.

  • Elaboración de proyectos de investigación.

  • Análisis de cuencas en márgenes convergentes.

  • Proyecto de investigación.

  • Seminario de proyecto de tesis.

PROYECTOS Y ASESORÍAS

Proyectos patrocinados por instituciones nacionales:

  • Proyecto Fondecyt Regular 1251389 (2025-2028): Tectonosedimentary evolution of the middle-late Miocene Alto Maipo basin (Principal Cordillera, 33°-34°S): the missing piece to understand the Neogene tectonic evolution of the Andes in central Chile. Investigador Responsable.

  • Proyecto Fondecyt Regular 1200428 (2020-2025): Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the western Neuquén basin during the Early Jurassic-Late Cretaceous, central Chile, 33°-35°S. Investigador Responsable.

  • Proyecto Fondecyt Regular 1151146 (2015-2019): Tectonosedimentary evolution of the mid-Cenozoic basins in the forearc and Main Andean Cordillera of south-central Chile (~36°-43°S). Investigador Responsable.

  • Proyecto Fondecyt Regular 1110914 (2011-2014): Age, sedimentary environment and paleobathymetry of the Neogene marine successions in the forearc of south-central Chile between Guafo Island and the Golfo de Penas (43º30'-48ºS). Investigador Responsable.

  • Proyecto Fondecyt Regular 1090165 (2009-2012): Record of the Miocene uplift of the Principal Cordillera on geochemical and mineralogical characterisitics of syntectonic deposits, Chile and Argentina (32º-34ºS). Coinvestigador.

  • Proyecto Fondecyt de Iniciación 11080115 (2008-2010): Age, sedimentary environment and paleobathymetry of the Estratos de Lago Ranco (40°s) and Ayacara formations (42°s), south-central Chile. Investigador Responsable.

  • Proyecto de Postdoctorado Fondecyt 3060051 (2006-2008): Age, sedimentary environment and paleobathymetry of the Neogene marine successions from the eastern Coastal Cordillera and the Intermediate Depression between Temuco and Puerto Montt (38°30’-41°30’S). Investigador Responsable.

  • Proyecto Fondecyt 1010691 (2002-2005): Tertiary and Quaternary sea-level changes along the Chilean coast: implications with regard to the development of beach gold placers, Andean tectonism and erosion. Estudiante de Doctorado

  • Proyectos patrocinados por instituciones extranjeras:

  • Proyecto CHL WTZ13-22 (2014-2016). Climatic, palaeoenvironmental and palaeoceanographic changes across the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary in southern South America (Chile) - a multidisciplinary study. Financiado por el BMBF (Secretaría de Investigación y Ciencias de Alemania). Investigador colaborador.

  • Proyecto PICT-2012-1490 (2013-2015). Estructura y evolución tectónica del frente orogénico andino entre 35º 30'- 39ºs y su extensión oriental por debajo del plateau volcánico de la Payenia, Andes Centrales Australes. Financiado por Agencia de Promocion Cientifica y tecnológica- Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnica, Argentina. Investigador asociado

  • Proyecto BA 1011/41-1 (2012-2015). The onshore tsunami record in southern Chile – historical and beyond: Sedimentology, geochemistry, stratigraphy and regional correlation. Financiado por el Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). Investigador colaborador.

  • Proyecto DFG Ni 699/5-1. (2011-2014). The marine Eocene in central Chile – stratigraphy, facies, paleogeography and fauna of a neglected time slice”. Financiado por el Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). Investigador colaborador.

  • Proyecto Ni699/4-1,4-2 (2005-2008). La evolución neógena de cuencas antearco de Chile Central y Sur en la relación entre tectónica y clima". Financiado por GFZ-Postdam. Investigador colaborador

  • Proyecto Sti 128/15 (2008-2009). Ichthyosaurs of late Jurassic/early Cretaceous age in the Torres del Paine National Park, Southernmost Chile. Financiado por el Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). Investigador colaborador.

  • Proyecto interno Guagua II (2008). Financiado por el GFZ-Postdam. Investigador colaborador.

  • Proyecto de Investigación en la Universidad Carlos de Praga financiado por el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de España (1996): Estudio de las capas rojas del período Carbonífero-Pérmico en el macizo de Bohemia. Investigador principal

  • Proyectos patrocinados por la Universidad de Concepción:

  • Proyecto DIUC 207.025.034-1.0 (2007-2009): Ambiente de sedimentación y paleobatimetría de los depósitos marinos Neógenos de las islas Mocha (38°30’S, 74°W) y Santa María (37°S, 73°30’W), Chile centro-sur. Implicaciones con respecto a la tectónica del antearco. Investigador responsable

  • Proyecto DIUC 207.025.035-1.0 (2007-2009): Caracterización estratigráfica y petrológica de las unidades volcano-sedimentarias del Jurásico Superior – Cretácico Inferior en la Cordillera de los Andes del norte de Chile (26º-30ºS): implicancias para la geodinámica andina. Coinvestigador

  • Proyecto DIUC 207.025.036-1.0 (2007-2009): Determinación de la tasa de alzamiento holocena en la planicie litoral de Talcahuano-Coronel y su relación con los terremotos de subducción. Coinvestigador

PUBLICACIONES

Publicaciones en Revistas ISI de la especialidad:

Vidal Murillo, L., Muñiz, F., Encinas, A., Kietzmann, D.A., Charrier, R., Espinoza, A. 2026. Late Jurassic Entobia ichnofacies from Chilean coral carpets (35°S): insights into bioerosion and back-arc palaeoenvironments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 701, 114100. Doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.114100.

Pernich, S., Zaffarana, C., Gallastegui, G., Orts, D., Rossel Estrada, P., Encinas, A., Valencia, V., Suárez, M., Fanning, C. M., Assis, O. S., Ruíz González, V. 2026. Permian arc plutonism along the southwestern Gondwana margin (36°-37°S): new U-Pb ages and geochemical evidence from the southern Central Andes. International Journal of Earth Sciences 115, 52. Doi.org/10.1007/s00531-026-02605-7.

Gerding, V., Muñoz-Gómez, M., Encinas, A., Quiñones, S., Castro, D., Charrier, R., Valencia, V., Le Roux, P. 2026. Tectono-magmatic transition from compression to extension along the central Chilean margin (~33◦S) during the Late Cretaceous: Insights from volcanic arc units. Lithos 542-543, 108723. Doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2026.108723.

Vega-Ruiz, A., Delgado, V., Racano, S., Clementucci, R., Veliz-Borel, V., Espinoza, M., Encinas, A., Melnick, D., Larregla, R., Asenjo, C. 2026. Tectonic and Climatic Controls on Uplift Transients of the Nahuelbuta Forearc Range, Northern Patagonian Andes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 690, 120098. Doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2026.120098.

Espinoza, M., Contreras, J.P., Cortés-Aranda, J., Rivera, C., Vargas-Zapata, E., Oyarzo, J., Castro, A., Venegas, C., Maksymowicz, A., Fosdick, J.C., Vásquez, P., Encinas, A., Charrier, R., Valencia, V. 2026. Tectonic evolution of the western slope of the Central Andes (36°S) and the building of the Western Andean Thrust System. Geoscience Frontiers 17, 102324. Doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2026.102324.

Solórzano, A., Encinas, A., Núñez-Flores, M., Carrasco, G., Buldrini, K., Campos-Medina, J., Bobe, R. 2026. A Santacrucian record of Acarechimys minutus (Octodontoidea) from Laguna del Laja (Cura-Mallín Formation, Chile; late Early Miocene) and its biogeographic implications. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 172, 105938. Doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2025.105938.

Sandoval, C.A., Abarzúa, A.M., Campos-Medina, J., Hinojosa, L.F., Astorga, G.A., Encinas, A., Cárdenas, A., Matte, D., Valencia, V.A. 2025. Plant Diversity in a Mesothermal Climate: Insights From the Rio San Pedro Formation (Late Eocene, South‐Central Chile, 39°S). Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 40, e2025PA005227. Doi.org/10.1029/2025PA005227.

Piñeiro, T., Encinas, A., Orts, D., Henríquez, N., Stinnesbeck, W., Rossel, P., Núñez, E., Valencia, V.A. 2025. A New Tectonic Model for the Contact Relationships of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Domains in the Principal Cordillera, Central Chile (33°–34°S). Tectonics 44, e2025TC008998. Doi.org/10.1029/2025TC008998.

Volosky, D., Vargas, C., Cisterna, K., Encinas, A., Gordillo, S., Muñiz, F., Buatois, L. A., Zambrano, P. 2025. Taphonomic analysis of storm-influenced shallow marine deposits in the Tubul Formation (Pliocene–Pleistocene), Chile. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 679, 113257. Doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113257.

Kietzmann, D.; Encinas, A. 2025. Microfacies analysis and biostratigraphy based on calpionellid and calcareous dinoflagellate cyst in the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary on the western margin of the Neuquén Basin, Baños Morales and Lo Valdés formations, Río Volcán section, Central Chile. Cretaceous Research 173, 106136. Doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106136.

Fernández-Paz, L., Iannelli, S., Martos, F., Greco, C., Encinas, A., Litvak, V., Folguera, A. 2024. Configuration of the early-mid Cenozoic extensional arc volcanism of the North Patagonian and the Southern Central Andes (33-43°S). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 146, 105100. Doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2024.105100.

Encinas, A., Henríquez, N., Castro, D., Orts, D., Kietzmann, D., Iovino, F., Vásquez, P., Folguera, A., Valencia, V., Fuentes, F. 2024. The transition from backarc extension to Andean growth: insights from geochronologic, sedimentologic, and structural studies of Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks in south-central Chile (36°S). Geoscience Frontiers 15, 101824. Doi: 10.1016/j.gsf.2024.101824.

Encinas, A., Rosselot, E., Sagripanti, L., Folguera, A., Horton, B.K., Orts, D., Valencia, V.A., Arriagada, G., Butikofer, P., Solórzano, A. 2024. Cenozoic Basin Evolution during alternating extension and shortening in the southern central Andes along the Chile-Argentina border, 37-38°S. American Journal of Science 324, 5. Doi: 10.2475/001c.115328.

Solórzano, A., Encinas, A., Kramarz, A., Carrasco, G., Núñez-Flores, M. G., Bobe, R. 2024. A new pachyrukhine (Notoungulata: Typotheria) from the late early Early Miocene of south-central Chile. Historical Biology 36 (7), 1368-1382. Doi: 10.1080/08912963.2023.2214568.

Acevedo, E., Fernández Paz, L., Encinas, A., Horton, B.K., Hernando, A., Valencia, V., Folguera, A. 2023. Late Jurassic back-arc extension in the Neuquén Basin (37°S): Insights from structural, sedimentological and provenance analyses. Basin Research 35, 1012–1036. Doi: 10.1111/bre.12744.

Kietzmann, D., Iovino, F., Encinas, A. 2022. New microbiostratigraphic data (calpionellids and calcispheres) from the Tithonian of Central Chile, type section (Río Tinguiririca) of the Baños del Flaco Formation. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 118, 103963. Doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2022.103963.

Greco, C.L., Fernández Paz, L., Martos, F.E., Litvak, V., Encinas, A., Naipauer, M., Valencia, V., Folguera, A. 2022. Stratigraphy and paleoenvironment of the Upper Jurassic Río Damas Formation in the Alto Atuel depocenter (Malargüe fold and thrust belt). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 119, 103951. Doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2022.103951.

Echaurren, A., Encinas, A., Sagripanti, L., Gianni, G., Zambrano, P., Duhart, P., Folguera, A. 2022. Fore-to-retroarc crustal structure of the north Patagonian margin: How is shortening distributed in Andean-type orogens? Global and Planetary Change 209, 103734. Doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103734.

Solórzano, A., Encinas, A., Kramarz, A., Carrasco, G., Montoya-Sanhueza, G., Bobe, R. 2021. Late early Miocene mammals from Laguna del Laja, Cura-Mallín Formation, south-central Chile (~37◦S) and their biogeographical and paleoenvironmental significance. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 112, 103544. Doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103544.

Santonja, C., Bechis, F., Suriano, J., Falco, J.I., Encinas, A., Olaizola, E.R., Valencia, V.A., Litvak, V.D., Ramos, V.A. 2021. Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the northeastern sector of the Ñirihuau basin, North Patagonian Andes, Argentina: Insights from sedimentology and geochronology data of the Ñirihuau Formation. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 111, 103487. Doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103487.

Bijl, P.K., Guerstein, G.R., Sanmiguel E.A., Sluijs, A., Casadio, S., Valencia, V., Amenábar, C., Encinas, A. 2021. Campanian–Eocene dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy in the Southern Andean foreland basin: Implications for Drake Passage throughflow. Andean Geology 48 (2), 185-218. Doi: 10.5027/andgeoV48n2-3339.

Encinas, A., Sagripanti, L., Rodríguez, M.P., Orts, D., Anavalón, A., Giroux, P., Otero, J., Echaurren, A., Zambrano, P., Valencia, V. 2021. Tectonosedimentary evolution of the Coastal Cordillera and Central Depression of south-Central Chile (36°30′-42°S). Earth-Science Reviews 213, 103465. Doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103465.

Fernández-Paz, L., Iannelli, S.B., Echaurren, A., Ramos, M., Bechis, F., Litvak, V. D., Encinas, A., Kasemann, S., Lucassen, F., Folguera, A. 2020. The late Eocene–early Miocene El Maitén Belt evolution: Magmatic response to the changing subduction zone geodynamics. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 103, 102713. Doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102713.

Solórzano, A., Encinas, A., Kramarz, A., Carrasco, G., Montoya-Sanhueza, G., Bobe, R. 2020. Late early Miocene caviomorph rodents from Laguna del Laja (~37° S), Cura-Mallín Formation, south-central Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 102, 102658. Doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102658.

Folguera, A., Fernández Paz, L., Iannelli, S., Navarrete, C., Echaurren, A., Gianni, G., Butler, K., Horton, B., Litvak, V., Encinas, A., Orts, D. 2020. The origin of the San Jorge Gulf Basin as a syn-contractional extensional basin in the context of the Meso to Cenozoic Patagonian evolution. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 97, 102422. Doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2019.102422.

Gianni, G.M., Navarrete, C., Echaurren, A., Díaz, M., Butler, K.L., Horton, B.K., Encinas, A., Folguera, A. 2020. Northward propagation of Andean genesis: Insights from Early Cretaceous synorogenic deposits in the Aysén-Río Mayo basin. Gondwana Research 77, 238-259. Doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2019.07.014.

Fernández Paz, L., Bechis, F., Litvak, V. D., Echaurren, A., Encinas, A., González, J., Lucassen, F., Oliveros, V., Valencia, V., Folguera, A. 2019. Constraints on trenchward arc migration and back-arc magmatism in the North Patagonian Andes in the context of Nazca plate rollback. Tectonics 38, TC005580. Doi: 10.1029/2019TC005580.

Solórzano, A., Encinas, A., Bobe, R., Reyes, M., Carrasco, G. 2019. The Early to late Middle Miocene mammalian assemblages from the Cura-Mallín Formation, at Lonquimay, southern Central Andes, Chile (~38°S): biogeographical and paleoenvironmental implications. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 96, 102319. Doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2019.102319.

Fennell, L.M., Iannelli, S.B., Encinas, A., Naipauer, M., Valencia, V., Folguera, A. 2019. Alternating contraction and extension in the Southern Central Andes (35º-37ºS). American Journal of Science 319, 381-429. Doi: 10.2475/05.2019.02.

Navarrete, C., Gianni G., Encinas, A., Márquez M., Kamerbeek, Y., Valle, M., Folguera, A. 2019. Triassic to Middle Jurassic geodynamic evolution of southwestern Gondwana: From a large flat-slab to mantle plume suction in a rollback subduction setting. Earth-Science Reviews 194, 125–159. Doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.05.002.

Encinas, A., Folguera, A., Riffo, R., Molina, P., Fernández Paz, L., Litvak, V.D., Colwyn, D.A., Valencia, V.A., Carrasco, M. 2019. Cenozoic basin evolution of the Central Patagonian Andes: evidence from geochronology, stratigraphy, and geochemistry. Geoscience Frontiers 10, 1139-1165. Doi: 10.1016/j.gsf.2018.07.004.

Gianni, G.M., Navarrete, C., Liendo, I., Díaz, M., Giménez, M.E., Encinas, A., Folguera, A. 2018. Cretaceous intraplate contraction in Southern Patagonia: A far-field response to changing subduction dynamics? Tectonics 37, 2915–2937. Doi: 10.1029/2018TC005173.

Folguera, A., Encinas, A., Echaurren, A., Gianni, G., Orts, D., Valencia, V., Carrasco, G. 2018. Constraints on the Neogene growth of the central Patagonian Andes at the latitude of the Chile triple junction (45–47°S) using U/Pb geochronology in synorogenic strata. Tectonophysics 744, 134–154. Doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.06.011.

Nentwig, V., Bahlburg, H., Górecka, E., Huber, B., Bellanova, P., Witkowski, A., Encinas, A. 2018. Multiproxy analysis of tsunami deposits-The Tirúa example, central Chile. Geosphere 14(3), 1067–1086. Doi: 10.1130/GES01528.1.

Iannelli, S.B., Fennell, L.M., Litvak, V.D., Fernández Paz, L., Encinas, A., Folguera, A. 2018. Geochemical and tectonic evolution of Late Cretaceous to early Paleocene magmatism along the Southern Central Andes (35-36°S). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 87, 139-156. Doi 10.1016/j.jsames.2017.12.008.

Fernández Paz, L., Litvak, V., Echaurren, A., Iannelli, S., Encinas, A., Folguera, A., Valencia, V. 2018. Late Eocene volcanism in North Patagonia (42°30′–43°S): Arc resumption after a stage of within-plate magmatism. Journal of Geodynamics 113, 13–31. Doi: 10.1016/j.jog.2017.11.005.

Gianni, G.M., Echaurren, A., Folguera, A., Likerman, J., Encinas, A., García H.P.A., Dal Molin, C., Valencia, V.A. 2017. Cenozoic intraplate tectonics in Central Patagonia: Record of main Andean phases in a weak upper plate. Tectonophysics 721, 151–166. Doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.10.005.

Echaurren, A., Folguera, A., Gianni, G., Orts, D., Tassara, A., Encinas, A., Gimenez, M. Valencia, V. 2016. Tectonic evolution of the North Patagonian Andes (41°-44°S) through recognition of syntectonic strata. Tectonophysics, 677–678, 99–114. Doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.04.009.

Encinas, A., Folguera, A., Oliveros, V., De Girolamo Del Mauro, L., Tapia, F., Riffo, R., Hervé, F., Finger, K.L., Valencia, V.A., Gianni, G., Álvarez, O. 2016. Late Oligocene–Early Miocene submarine volcanism and deep-marine sedimentation in an extensional basin of southern Chile: implications on the tectonic development of the North Patagonian Andes. Geological Society of America Bulletin 128 (5/6), 807–823. Doi: 10.1130/B31303.1.

Encinas, A., Finger, K.L., Nielsen, S.N., Contardo, X. 2014. Comment on Reply to Comment of Finger et al. (2013) on: ‘Evidence for an Early-Middle Miocene age of the Navidad Formation (central Chile): Paleontological, paleoclimatic and tectonic implications’ of Gutiérrez et al. (2013, Andean Geology 40 (1): 66-78). Andean Geology 41 (3): 639-656. Doi: 10.5027/andgeoV41n3-a07.

Encinas, A., Pérez, F., Nielsen, S.N., Finger, K.L., Valencia, V., Duhart, P. 2014. Geochronologic and paleontologic evidence for a Pacific–Atlantic connection during the late Oligocene–early Miocene in the Patagonian Andes (43–44°S). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 55, 1-18. Doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2014.06.008.

Bechis, F., Encinas, A., Concheyro, A., Litvak, V.D., Aguirre-Urreta, B., Ramos, V.A. 2014. New age constraints for the Cenozoic marine transgressions of Northwestern Patagonia, Argentina (41°-43° S): paleogeographic and tectonic implications. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 52, 72-93. Doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2014.02.003.

Encinas, A., Stinnesbeck, W., Valencia, V.A. 2014. First radiometric age (U-Pb, LA-ICP-MS, on detrital zircons) from the Punta Topocalma Formation: insights on Late Cretaceous marine deposition in central Chile. Andean Geology 41 (2), 436-445. Doi: 10.5027/andgeoV41n1-a08.

Nielsen, S.N., Encinas, A. 2014. The genus Struthiochenopus (gastropoda: aporrhaidae): new Miocene records from southern Chile. Journal of Paleontology 88(1), 152–159. Doi: 10.1666/13-016.

Finger, K.L., Encinas, A., Nielsen, S.N. 2013. Comment on ‘Evidence for an Early-Middle Miocene age of the Navidad Formation (central Chile): Paleontological, paleoclimatic and tectonic implications’ of Gutiérrez et al. (2013, Andean Geology 40 (1): 66-78). Andean Geology 40 (3), 570-579. Doi: 10.5027/andgeoV40n3-a10.

Encinas, A., Zambrano, P.A., Finger, K.L., Valencia, V., Buatois, L.A., Duhart, P. 2013. Implications of Deep-marine Miocene Deposits on the Evolution of the North Patagonian Andes. Journal of Geology 121, 215–238. Doi: 10.1086/669976.

Orts, D.L., Folguera, A., Encinas, A., Ramos, M., Tobal, J., Ramos, V. 2012. Tectonic development of the North Patagonian Andes and their related Miocene foreland basin (41º30’-43ºS). Tectonics 31, TC3012. Doi: 10.1029/2011TC003084.

Rodríguez, M.P., Pinto, L., Encinas, A. 2012. Cenozoic erosion in the Andean forearc in Central Chile (33°–34°S): Sediment provenance inferred by heavy mineral studies. GSA Bulletin Special paper 487, 141-162. Doi: 10.1130/2012.2487(09).

Encinas, A., Finger, K.L., Buatois, L.A., Peterson, D.E. 2012. Major forearc subsidence and deep-marine Miocene sedimentation in the present Coastal Cordillera and Longitudinal Depression of south-central Chile (38°30′S–41°45′S). GSA Bulletin 124 (7/8), 1262–1277. Doi: 10.1130/B30567.1.

Oliveros, V., Labbé, M., Rossel, P., Charrier, R., Encinas, A. 2012. Late Jurassic paleogeographic evolution of the Andean back-arc basin: New constrains from the Lagunillas Formation, northern Chile (27º 30ʹ-28º 30ʹS). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 37, 25-40. Doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2011.12.005.

Barreda, V., Encinas, A., Hinojosa, L.F. 2011. Polen y esporas de la Formación Navidad, Neógeno de Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 84: 341-355. Doi: 10.4067/S0716-078X2011000300003.

Buatois, L.A., Encinas, A. 2011. Ichnology, sequence stratigraphy and depositional evolution of an Upper Cretaceous rocky shoreline in central Chile: Bioerosion structures in a transgressed metamorphic basement. Cretaceous Research 32, 203-212. Doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2010.12.003.

Encinas, A., Fourtanier, E., Finger, K.L., Buatois, L.A., Le Roux, J.P. 2010. Stratigraphic implications of latest middle Miocene to earliest late Miocene diatoms in the Navidad Formation at Lo Abarca, central Chile (33° 30’S). Ameghiniana 47 (4), 527-533. Doi: AMGHB2-0002-7014.

Feldmann, R.M., Schweitzer, C.E., Encinas, A. 2010. Neogene decapod crustacea from Southern Chile. Annals of Carnegie Museum 78 (4), 337-336. Doi: 10.2992/007.078.0404.

Finger, K.L., Encinas, A. 2009. Recognition and implications of globigerinathekids (Eocene planktic foraminifera) in coal-bearing successions of the forearc of south-central Chile (37º45’-41º50’S). Ameghiniana 46 (2), 437-442. Doi: AMGHB2-0002-7014.

Encinas, A., Buatois, L.A., Finger, K.L. 2008. Paleoecological and Paleoenvironmental implications of a high-density Chondrites association in slope deposits of the Neogene Santo Domingo Formation, Valdivia, south-central Chile. Ameghiniana 45 (1), 225-231. Doi: AMGHB2-0002-7014.

Encinas, A., Finger, K.L., Nielsen, S.N., Lavenu, A., Buatois, L.A., Peterson, D.E., Le Roux, J.P. 2008. Rapid and major coastal subsidence during the late Miocene in south-central Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 25 (2), 157-175. Doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2007.07.001.

Encinas, A., Finger, K.L. 2007. Slow rates of subduction erosion and coastal underplating along the Andean margin of Chile and Peru: Comment. Geology, Forum p. 156-157. Doi: 10.1130/G24305C.1.

Kociolek, J.P., Fourtanier, E., Rubenstein, J., Encinas, A. 2007. Adoneis Miocenica, a new species from Chile, with comments on the morphological separation of centric and pennate diatoms. Diatom research 22 (2), 309-316. Doi: 10.1080/0269249X.2007.9705717.

Finger, K.L, Nielsen, S.N., DeVries, T.J., Encinas, A., Peterson, D.E. 2007. Paleontologic Evidence for Sedimentary Displacement in Neogene Forearc Basins of Central Chile. Palaios 22, 3-16. Doi: 10.2110/palo.2005.p05-081r.

Encinas, A., Le Roux, J.P., Buatois, L.A., Nielsen, S.N., Finger, K.L., Fourtanier, E., Lavenu, A. 2006. Nuevo esquema estratigráfico para los depósitos marinos mio-pliocenos del área de Navidad (33°00’-34°30’S), Chile central. Revista Geológica de Chile (Andean Geology) 33 (2), 221-246. Doi: 10.4067/S0716-02082006000200002.

Encinas, A., Hervé, F., Villa-Martínez, R., Nielsen, S.N., Finger, K.L., Peterson, D.E. 2006. Finding of a Holocene marine layer in Algarrobo (33°22’S), central Chile. Implications for coastal uplift. Revista Geológica de Chile (Andean Geology) 33 (2), 339-345. Doi: 10.4067/S0716-02082006000200007.

Buatois, L.A., Encinas, A. 2006. La icnofacies de Glossifungites en el contacto entre las formaciones Navidad (Miembro Rapel) y La Cueva, Plioceno de la Cordillera de la Costa, Chile: Su significado estratigráfico-secuencial. Ameghiniana 43 (1), 3-9. Doi: AMGHB2-0002-7014.

Troncoso, A., Encinas, A. 2006. La tafoflora de cerro Centinela (Chile, VI Región): vegetación y clima de Chile central a fines del Mioceno – comienzos del Plioceno. Ameghiniana 43 (1), 171-180. Doi: AMGHB2-0002-7014.

Encinas, A., Maksaev, V., Pinto, L., Le Roux, J.P., Munizaga, F., Zentilli, M. 2006. Pliocene lahar deposits in the Coastal Cordillera of central Chile: Implications for uplift, avalanche deposits, and porphyry copper systems in the Main Andean Cordillera. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 20, 369-381. Doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2005.08.007.

Schweitzer, C.E., Feldmann, R.M., Encinas, A., Suárez, M. 2006. New Cretaceous and Eocene Callianassoidea (Thalassinidea, Decapoda) from Algarrobo, Chile. Journal of Crustacean Biology 26 (1), 73-81. Doi: 10.1651/C-2603.1.

Feldmann, R.M., Schweitzer, C.E., Encinas, A. 2005. New decapods from the Navidad Formation (Miocene) of Chile. Journal of Crustacean Biology 25 (3), 427-449. Doi: 10.1651/C-2547.

Lavenu, A., Encinas, A. 2005. Deformación frágil de los depósitos neógenos de la cuenca de Navidad (Cordillera de la Costa, 34°S, Chile central). Revista Geológica de Chile (Andean Geology) 32 (2), 229-248. Doi: 10.4067/S0716-02082005000200004.

Lavenu, A., Encinas, A. 2005. Deformación frágil de los depósitos neógenos de la cuenca de Navidad (Cordillera de la Costa, 34°S, Chile central). Revista Geológica de Chile 32 (2), 229-248.

Feldmann, R.M., Schweitzer, C.E., Encinas, A. 2005. New decapods from the Navidad Formation (Miocene) of Chile. Journal of Crustacean Biology 25 (3), 427-449.

Schweitzer, C.E., Feldmann, R.M., Encinas, A., Suárez, M. 2006. New Cretaceous and Eocene Callianassoidea (Thalassinidea, Decapoda) from Algarrobo, Chile. Journal of Crustacean Biology 26 (1), 73-81.

Suárez, M.E., Encinas, A., Ward, D. 2006. An Early Miocene elasmobranch fauna from the Navidad Formation, Central Chile, South America. Cainozoic Research 4(1-2), 3-18. (Incluida en Biosis index

Encinas, A., Maksaev, V., Pinto, L., Le Roux, J.P., Munizaga, F., Zentilli, M. 2006. Pliocene lahar deposits in the Coastal Cordillera of central Chile: Implications for uplift, avalanche deposits, and porphyry copper systems in the Main Andean Cordillera. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 20, 369-381.

Troncoso, A., Encinas. A. 2006. La tafoflora de cerro Centinela (Chile, VI Región): vegetación y clima de Chile central a fines del Mioceno – comienzos del Plioceno. Ameghiniana. 43 (1), 171-180

Buatois, L.A, Encinas, A. 2006. La icnofacies de Glossifungites en el contacto entre las formaciones Navidad (Miembro Rapel) y La Cueva, Plioceno de la Cordillera de la Costa, Chile: Su significado estratigráfico-secuencial. Ameghiniana. 43 (1), 3-9.

Encinas, A., Hervé, F., Villa-Martínez, R., Nielsen, S.N., Finger, K.L., Peterson, D.E. 2006. Finding of a Holocene marine layer in Algarrobo (33°22’S), central Chile. Implications for coastal uplift. Revista Geológica de Chile 33 (2), 339-345

Encinas, A., Le Roux, J.P., Buatois, L.A., Nielsen, S.N., Finger, K.L., Fourtanier, E., Lavenu, A. 2006. Nuevo esquema estratigráfico para los depósitos marinos mio-pliocenos del área de Navidad (33°00’-34°30’S), Chile central. Revista Geológica de Chile 33 (2), 221-246.

Finger, K.L, Nielsen, S.N., DeVries, T.J., Encinas, A., Peterson, D.E. 2007. Paleontologic Evidence for Sedimentary Displacement in Neogene Forearc Basins of Central Chile. Palaios 22, 3-16.

Kociolek, J.P., Fourtanier, E., Rubenstein, J., Encinas, A. 2007. Adoneis Miocenica, a new species from Chile, with comments on the morphological separation of centric and pennate diatoms. Diatom research 22 (2), 309-316

Encinas, A., Finger, K.L. 2007. Slow rates of subduction erosion and coastal underplating along the Andean margin of Chile and Peru: Comment. Geology, Forum p. 156-157. DOI: 10.1130/G24305C.1

Encinas, A., Finger, K.L., Nielsen, S.N., Lavenu, A., Buatois, L.A., Peterson, D.E., Le Roux, J.P. 2008. Rapid and major coastal subsidence during the late Miocene in south-central Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 25 (2), 157-175.

Encinas, A., Buatois, L.A., Finger, K.L. 2008. Paleoecological and Paleoenvironmental implications of a high-density Chondrites association in slope deposits of the Neogene Santo Domingo Formation, Valdivia, south-central Chile. Ameghiniana. 45 (1), 225-231.

Finger, K.L., Encinas, A. 2009. Recognition and implications of globigerinathekids (Eocene planktic foraminifera) in coal-bearing successions of the forearc of south-central Chile (37º45 -41º50 S). Ameghiniana 46 (2), 437-442.

Feldmann, R.M., Schweitzer, C.E., Encinas, A. 2010. Neogene decapod crustacea from Southern Chile. Annals of Carnegie Museum 78 (4), 337-336.

Encinas, A., Fourtanier, E., Finger, K.L., Buatois, L.A., Le Roux, J.P. 2010. Stratigraphic implications of latest middle Miocene to earliest late Miocene diatoms in the Navidad Formation at Lo Abarca, central Chile (33°30 S). Ameghiniana 47 (4), 527-533.

Buatois, L.A., Encinas, A. 2011. Ichnology, sequence stratigraphy and depositional evolution of an Upper Cretaceous rocky shoreline in central Chile: Bioerosion structures in a transgressed metamorphic basement. Cretaceous Research 32, 203-212.

Barreda, V., Encinas, A., Hinojosa, L.F. 2011. Polen y esporas de la Formación Navidad, Neógeno de Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 84: 341-355.

Oliveros, V., Labbé, M., Rossel, P., Charrier, R., Encinas, A. 2012. Late Jurassic paleogeographic evolution of the Andean back-arc basin: New constrains from the Lagunillas Formation, northern Chile (27º30 -28º30 S). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 37, 25-40.

Encinas, A., Finger, K.L., Buatois, L.A., Peterson, D.E. 2012. Major forearc subsidence and deep-marine Miocene sedimentation in the present Coastal Cordillera and Longitudinal Depression of south-central Chile (38°30 S–41°45 S). GSA Bulletin 124 (7/8), 1262–1277; doi: 10.1130/B30567.1.

Rodríguez, M.P., Pinto, L., Encinas, A. 2012. Cenozoic erosion in the Andean forearc in Central Chile (33°–34°S): Sediment provenance inferred by heavy mineral studies. GSA Bulletin Special paper 487, 141-162.

Orts, D.L., Folguera, A., Encinas, A., Ramos, M., Tobal, J., Ramos, V. 2012. Tectonic development of the North Patagonian Andes and their related Miocene foreland basin (41º30’-43ºS). Tectonics, Vol. 31, TC3012, doi:10.1029/2011TC003084

Encinas, A., Zambrano, P.A., Finger, K.L., Valencia, V., Buatois, L.A., Duhart, P. 2013. Implications of Deep-marine Miocene Deposits on the Evolution of the North Patagonian Andes. The Journal of Geology 121, 215–238.

Finger, K.L., Encinas, A., Nielsen, S.N. 2013. Comment on "Evidence for an Early-Middle Miocene age of the Navidad Formation (central Chile): Paleontological, paleoclimatic and tectonic implications" of Gutiérrez et al. (2013, Andean Geology 40 (1): 66-78). Andean Geology 40 (3), 570-578.

Nielsen, S.N., Encinas, A. 2014. The genus Struthiochenopus (gastropoda: aporrhaidae): new Miocene records from southern Chile. The Journal of Paleontology. 88(1), 152–159.

Encinas, A., Stinnesbeck, W., Valencia, V.A. 2014. First radiometric age (U-Pb, LA-ICP-MS, on detrital zircons) from the Punta Topocalma Formation: insights on Late Cretaceous marine deposition in central Chile. Andean Geology 41 (2), 436-445.

Bechis, F., Encinas, A., Concheyro, A., Litvak, V.D., Aguirre-Urreta, B., Ramos, V.A. 2014. New age constraints for the Cenozoic marine transgressions of Northwestern Patagonia, Argentina (41°-43° S): paleogeographic and tectonic implications. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 52, 72-93.

Encinas, A., Pérez, F., Nielsen, S.N., Finger, K.L., Valencia, V., Duhart, P. 2014. Geochronologic and paleontologic evidence for a Pacific–Atlantic connection during the late Oligocene–early Miocene in the Patagonian Andes (43–44°S). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 55, 1-18.

Encinas, A., Finger, K.L., Nielsen, S.N., Contardo, X. 2014. Comment on Reply to Comment of Finger et al. (2013) on: "Evidence for an Early-Middle Miocene age of the Navidad Formation (central Chile): Paleontological, paleoclimatic and tectonic implications" of Gutiérrez et al. (2013, Andean Geology 40 (1): 66-78). Andean Geology 41 (3): 639-656.

Encinas, A., Folguera, A., Oliveros, V., De Girolamo Del Mauro, L., Tapia, F., Riffo, R., Hervé, F., Finger, K.L., Valencia, V.A., Gianni, G., Álvarez, O. 2016. Late Oligocene–Early Miocene submarine volcanism and deep-marine sedimentation in an extensional basin of southern Chile: implications on the tectonic development of the North Patagonian Andes. Geological Society of America Bulletin 128 (5/6), 807–823.

Echaurren, A., Folguera, A., Gianni, G., Orts, D., Tassara, A., Encinas, A., Gimenez, M. Valencia, V. 2016. Tectonic evolution of the North Patagonian Andes (41°-44°S) through recognition of syntectonic strata. Tectonophysics, 677–678, 99–114.

Capítulos de Libros:

Orts, D., Folguera, A., Giménez, M., Ruiz, F., Encinas, A., Rojas Vera, E., Lince Klinger, F., 2015. Cenozoic deformational processes in the North Patagonian Andes between 40º and 43ºS. In Folguera et al. (Eds.): Growth of the Southern Andes. Springer, p. 147-171.

Gianni, G., Folguera, A., Navarrete, C., Encinas, A., Echaurren, A., 2015. The North Patagonian orogen: Meso-Cenozoic evolution from the Andes to the foreland area. In Folguera et al. (Eds.): Growth of the Southern Andes. Springer, p. 173-200.

Encinas, A., Folguera, A., Bechis, F., Finger, K.L., Zambrano, P., Pérez, F., Bernabé, P. Tapia, F., Riffo, R., Buatois, L., Orts, D., Nielsen, S.N., Valencia, V.A., Cuitiño, J., Oliveros, V., De Girolamo Del Mauro, L., Ramos, V.A. 2017. The late Oligocene-early Miocene marine transgression of Patagonia. In Folguera, A., Contreras Reyes, E., Heredia, N., Encinas, A., Iannelli, S., Oliveros, V., Dávila, F., Collo, G., Giambiagi, L., Maksymowicz, A., Iglesia Llanos, P., Turienzo, M., Naipauer, M., Orts, D., M., Litvak, V., Alvarez, O., Arriagada, C. (eds.) The making of the Chilean-Argentinean Andes.