The structural style of footwall shortcuts along the Eastern foothills of the Colombian Eastern Cordillera. Differences with other inversion related structures

CTyF - Ciencia, Tecnologia y Futuro

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 7-21

  Mora, Andrés ^a   Parra, Mauricio ^b  

^a ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ariari Guatiquia region; Eastern cordillera of colombia; Footwall shortcuts; Inversion tectonics; Lower cretaceous; Servit fault; Vitrinite reflectance

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CORDILLERA; CRETACEOUS; FOOTWALL; GRABEN; HANGING WALL; INVERSION TECTONICS; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; OLIGOCENE; OROGENY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; REFLECTANCE; RIFTING; VITRINITE;

COLOMBIA;

EID: 77949954752     PISSN: 01225383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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