The role of inherited extensional fault segmentation and linkage in contractional orogenesis: A reconstruction of lower cretaceous inverted rift basins in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia

Basin Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 111-137

  Mora, Andrés ^a   Gaona, Tatiana ^b   Kley, Jonas ^c   Montoya, Diana ^b   Parra, Mauricio ^a   Quiroz, Luis Ignacio ^d   Reyes, German ^b   Strecker, Manfred R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b SERVICIO GEOLÓGICO COLOMBIANO   (Colombia)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CRETACEOUS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; INVERSION TECTONICS; OROGENY; RIFT ZONE; SEDIMENTATION;

COLOMBIA; CORDILLERA ORIENTAL [COLOMBIA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 58849085110     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2008.00367.x     Document Type: Article

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