Discriminating rapid exhumation from syndepositional volcanism using detrital zircon double dating: Implications for the tectonic history of the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 762-779

  Saylor, Joel E ^a   Stockli, Daniel F ^a,b   Horton, Brian K ^a   Nie, Junsheng ^b   Mora, Andrés ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOMBIA; DATA SETS; DETRITAL THERMOCHRONOLOGY; DETRITAL ZIRCON; DOUBLE DATING; EARLY-TO-LATE; EASTERN CORDILLERA; FOLD-THRUST BELTS; LAG-TIME; LATE EOCENE; LATE OLIGOCENE; MAGMATIC ARCS; MESOZOIC; OROGENS; PALEOCENE; PALEOGENE; SEDIMENT SOURCE AREAS; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; TECTONIC HISTORY; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; THRUST SYSTEMS; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANIC ORIGIN;

LEAD; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLCANOES; ZIRCON;

TECTONICS;

DETRITAL DEPOSIT; EXHUMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; OROGENY; PALEOGENE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANISM; ZIRCON;

COLOMBIA; CORDILLERA ORIENTAL [COLOMBIA]; MAGDALENA VALLEY;

EID: 84861390129     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30534.1     Document Type: Article

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