Linking sedimentation in the northern Andes to basement configuration, Mesozoic extension, and Cenozoic shortening: Evidence from detrital zircon U-Pb ages, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1423-1442

  Horton, Brian K ^a   Saylor, Joel E ^a   Nie, Junsheng ^a   Mora, Andrés ^b   Parra, Mauricio ^a   Reyes Harker, Andrés ^b   Stockli, Daniel F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; COLOMBIA; DETRITAL ZIRCON; DRAINAGE SYSTEMS; EARLY CRETACEOUS; EARLY JURASSIC; EARLY PALEOZOIC; EASTERN CORDILLERA; FOLD-THRUST BELTS; FORELAND BASIN; JURASSIC; LA-ICP-MS; LASER-ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LATE CRETACEOUS; LATE MIOCENE; LATE TRIASSIC; MAGMATIC SOURCES; MESOZOIC; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCENE; PALEOGENE; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PALEOZOIC; PALEOZOIC STRATA; PERMIAN; PLIOCENE; PRECAMBRIAN BASEMENT; SOUTH AMERICA; TRIASSIC;

ABLATION; BUILDINGS; DRAINAGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEAD; RECYCLING; SILICATE MINERALS; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS; ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

AGE DETERMINATION; BASEMENT ROCK; CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGMATISM; MESOZOIC; RIFTING; SEDIMENTATION; SUBDUCTION; UPLIFT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ANDES; CORDILLERA ORIENTAL [ANDES];

EID: 77956719648     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30118.1     Document Type: Article

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