Episodic orogenic front migration in the northern Andes: Constraints from low-temperature thermochronology in the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia

Tectonics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Parra, Mauricio ^a   Mora, Andres ^a,b   Sobel, Edward R ^a   Strecker, Manfred R ^a   González, Román ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

^c Hocol SA ^*  (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DIACHRONISM; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; FORELAND BASIN; HOLOCENE; KINEMATICS; LOW TEMPERATURE; OLIGOCENE; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; PLATE TECTONICS; SLIP RATE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; ZIRCON;

ANDES; COLOMBIA; CORDILLERA ORIENTAL [COLOMBIA];

EID: 72549116860     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008TC002423     Document Type: Article

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