Integrated provenance analysis of a convergent retroarc foreland system: U-Pb ages, heavy minerals, Nd isotopes, and sandstone compositions of the Middle Magdalena Valley basin, northern Andes, Colombia

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2012, Pages 111-126

  Nie, Junsheng ^a,b   Horton, Brian K ^a   Saylor, Joel E ^a   Mora, Andrés ^c   Mange, Maria ^d   Garzione, Carmala N ^e   Basu, Asish ^e   Moreno, Christopher J ^a   Caballero, Victor ^c   Parra, Mauricio ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Andes; Colombia; Middle Magdalena Valley basin; Provenance

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; EOCENE; FORELAND BASIN; HEAVY MINERAL; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MESOZOIC; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCENE; PALEOCURRENT; PETROGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

COLOMBIA; CORDILLERA CENTRAL [COLOMBIA]; MAGDALENA VALLEY;

EID: 84855236959     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.11.002     Document Type: Review

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