Intraplate subsidence and basin filling adjacent to an oceanic arc-continent collision: A case from the southern Caribbean-South America plate margin

Basin Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 403-422

  Bayona, Germán ^a,b   Montes, Camilo ^b,c   Cardona, Agustín ^b,c   Jaramillo, Carlos ^b   Ojeda, Germán ^d   Valencia, Victor ^e   Ayala Calvo, Carolina ^c  

^a Corporación Geológica ARES ^*  (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c ECOPETROL SA ^*  (Colombia)

^d ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

^e WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; BASIN FILL; CAMPANIAN; CARIBBEAN PLATE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EOCENE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; JURASSIC; MAASTRICHTIAN; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PALEOCENE; SUBSIDENCE;

ANDES; COLOMBIA; CORDILLERA CENTRAL [ANDES]; SIERRA DE SANTA MARTA [COLOMBIA];

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 78651462834     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00495.x     Document Type: Article

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