An integrated analysis of an orogen-sedimentary basin pair: Latest Cretaceous-Cenozoic evolution of the linked Eastern Cordillera orogen and the Llanos foreland basin of Colombia

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 1171-1197

  Bayona, German ^a,b   Cortés, Martin ^b   Jaramillo, Carlos ^a   Ojeda, German ^c   Aristizabal, John Jairo ^c,d   Reyes Harker, Andres ^c  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b Corporación Geológicas ARES ^*  (Colombia)

^c ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

^d REPSOLYP   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Basin inversion; Cenozoic stratigraphy; Cenozoic tectonics; Colombia; Foreland basin; Llanos Basin; Orogenic belts

Indexed keywords

BASIN INVERSION; CENOZOIC STRATIGRAPHY; CENOZOIC TECTONICS; COLOMBIA; FORELAND BASIN; LLANOS BASIN; OROGENIC BELTS;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; FLEXIBLE COUPLINGS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SANDSTONE; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

TECTONICS;

BASIN ANALYSIS; BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOREARC BASIN; FORELAND BASIN; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; OROGENIC BELT; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; THRUST;

COLOMBIA; CORDILLERA ORIENTAL [COLOMBIA]; LLANOS; MAGDALENA VALLEY; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 54849440781     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26187.1     Document Type: Article

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