Development of the Colombian foreland-basin system as a consequence of diachronous exhumation of the northern Andes

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 9-10, 2005, Pages 1272-1292

  Gómez, Elías ^a,b   Jordan, Teresa E ^a   Allmendinger, Richard W ^a   Cardozo, Nestor ^a  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

Basin analysis; Colombia; Northern Andes; Paleogeographic controls; Subsidence; Unconformity

Indexed keywords

BASIN ANALYSIS; PALEOGEOGRAPHIC CONTROLS; UNCONFORMITY;

LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; EXHUMATION; FORELAND BASIN; SUBSIDENCE;

ANDES; COLOMBIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24644501755     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25456.1     Document Type: Article

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