Orogenic wedge advance in the northern Andes: Evidence from the Oligocene-Miocene sedimentary record of the Medina Basin, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 780-800

  Parra, Mauricio ^a   Mora, Andrés ^a,c   Jaramillo, Carlos ^b   Strecker, Manfred R ^a   Sobel, Edward R ^a   Quiroz, Luis ^b   Rueda, Milton ^c   Torres, Vladimir ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Andes; Cenozoic; Columbia; Fold and thrust belts; Foreland basin; Inversion tectonics

Indexed keywords

ANDES; CENOZOIC; COLUMBIA; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; FORELAND BASIN; INVERSION TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BASIN EVOLUTION; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; INVERSION TECTONICS; OROGENY; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

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

EID: 69949145995     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26257.1     Document Type: Article

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