Detecting earliest shortening and deformation advance in thrust belt hinterlands: Example from the Colombian Andes

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 175-178

  Parra, Mauricio ^a,b   Mora, Andrés ^b   Lopez, Cristina ^b   Rojas, Luis Ernesto ^b   Horton, Brian K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR UNCONFORMITY; APATITE FISSION TRACKS; COLOMBIA; COLOMBIANS; CROSS SECTION; EASTERN CORDILLERA; FAULT STRENGTH; INVERSION STRUCTURES; LOW TEMPERATURES; OROGENS; PALEOCENE; PALEOGENE; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; REFLECTION SEISMIC; REVERSE FAULTS; SEDIMENT LOADING; SEISMIC PROFILES; THERMAL MODELING; THERMOCHRONOMETRY; THRUST BELTS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; FAULTING; SEISMIC WAVES;

DEFORMATION;

BELT; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITION; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; FOLD; REVERSE FAULT; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; THRUST; UNCONFORMITY;

ANDES; COLOMBIA; CORDILLERA ORIENTAL [COLOMBIA]; MAGDALENA VALLEY;

EID: 84858124337     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32519.1     Document Type: Article

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