Tectonic controls on Cenozoic foreland basin development in the north-eastern Andes, Colombia

Basin Research

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 874-903

  Parra, Mauricio ^a   Mora, Andrés ^a,b   Jaramillo, Carlos ^c   Torres, Vladimir ^b   Zeilinger, Gerold ^a   Strecker, Manfred R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; BASIN EVOLUTION; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; EOCENE; FACIES; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FORELAND BASIN; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCENE; PALEOCURRENT; PALYNOLOGY; PROGRADATION; PROVENANCE; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION;

ANDES; COLOMBIA; CORDILLERA ORIENTAL [ANDES];

EID: 77956735590     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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