Soft-sediment deformation in a tectonically active area: The Plio-Pleistocene Zarzal Formation in the Cauca Valley (Western Colombia)

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 186, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 67-88

  Neuwerth, Ralph ^a   Suter, Fiore ^a   Guzman, Carlos A ^b   Gorin, Georges E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE CALDAS   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Cauca Romeral Fault System; Dewatering; Injection; Liquidization; Load structures; Seismites; Synsedimentary faulting

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SYNSEDIMENTARY TECTONICS;

CAUCA VALLEY; COLOMBIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33645864645     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.10.009     Document Type: Article

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