Climatic forcing of asymmetric orogenic evolution in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 930-949

  Mora, Andrés ^a   Parra, Mauricio ^a   Strecker, Manfred R ^a   Sobel, Edward R ^a   Hooghiemstra, Henry ^b   Torres, Vladimir ^b   Jaramillo, Jaime Vallejo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Apatite fission tracks; Balanced cross sections; Deformation; Erosion; Orographic barriers; Paleoclimate; Paleoelevation

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; APATITE FISSION-TRACK; BALANCED CROSS SECTIONS; CLIMATIC EVOLUTION; COLOMBIA; CROSS SECTIONING; DATA SETS; DEFORMATION; EASTERN CORDILLERA; EXHUMATION RATES; FISSION TRACKS; GEOLOGICAL DATA; GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; OROGENIC EVOLUTION; OROGRAPHIC BARRIERS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOELEVATION; STRUCTURAL ASYMMETRY; STRUCTURAL CROSS-SECTION; TECTONIC PROCESSES;

EROSION; FISSION REACTIONS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SOIL MECHANICS;

TECTONICS;

APATITE; CLIMATE FORCING; CROSS SECTION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; OROGENY; OROGRAPHY; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ANDES; COLOMBIA; CORDILLERA ORIENTAL [COLOMBIA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 49749083871     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26186.1     Document Type: Article

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