Tracking exhumation of Andean ranges bounding the Middle Magdalena Valley Basin, Colombia

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 451-454

  Nie, Junsheng ^a,b   Horton, Brian K ^a   Mora, Andrés ^c   Saylor, Joel E ^a   Housh, Todd B ^a   Rubiano, Jorge ^c   Naranjo, Julian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; COLOMBIA; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DETRITAL ZIRCON; EASTERN CORDILLERA; LATE EOCENE; LATE OLIGOCENE; MESOZOIC; MIDDLE MAGDALENA VALLEY BASINS; NEO GENES; PALEOCENE; PALEOGENE CLIMATE; PLIOCENE; PROTEROZOIC;

DEFORMATION; LANDFORMS; LEAD; SILICATE MINERALS;

TECTONICS;

CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TRACKING; UPLIFT;

ANDES; COLOMBIA; CORDILLERA CENTRAL [ANDES]; MAGDALENA VALLEY;

EID: 77953950392     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30775.1     Document Type: Article

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