Evaluating foreland basin partitioning in the northern Andes using Cenozoic fill of the Floresta basin, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia

Basin Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 377-402

  Saylor, Joel E ^a   Horton, Brian K ^a   Nie, Junsheng ^a   Corredor, Jaime ^b   Mora, Andrés ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EOCENE; FACIES ANALYSIS; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MESOZOIC; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCENE; PALEOCURRENT; PETROGRAPHY; SANDSTONE; UPLIFT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

COLOMBIA; CORDILLERA CENTRAL [COLOMBIA]; CORDILLERA ORIENTAL [COLOMBIA]; GUYANA SHIELD;

EID: 79959986659     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00493.x     Document Type: Article

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