The evolution of extant South American tropical biomes

C Jaramillo - New Phytologist, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
This review explores the evolution of extant South American tropical biomes, focusing on
when and why they developed. Tropical vegetation experienced a radical transformation …

Kinematics and convergent tectonics of the Northwestern South American plate during the Cenozoic

R González, O Oncken, C Faccenna… - Geochemistry …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The interaction of the northern Nazca and southwestern Caribbean oceanic plates with
northwestern South America (NWSA) and the collision of the Panama‐Choco arc (PCA) …

Drainage and sedimentary response of the Northern Andes and the Pebas system to Miocene strike‐slip tectonics: A source to sink study of the Magdalena Basin

S Zapata, L Calderon‐Diaz, C Jaramillo… - Basin …, 2023‏ - earthdoc.org
Miocene strike‐slip tectonics was responsible for creating and closing short‐lived (ca. 6 Ma)
passages and the emergence of isolated topography in the Northern Andes. These …

[HTML][HTML] Cretaceous extensional and contractional stages in the Colombian Andes unraveled by a source-to-sink geochronological and thermochronological study in …

L Calderon-Diaz, S Zapata, A Cardona, M Parra… - Tectonophysics, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Extensional and flexural basins can evolve through multiple stages under the same plate
tectonic regime over tens of millions of years. The Cretaceous tectonic evolution of the …

Maastrichtian-Cenozoic erosional history of the northern Peruvian Amazonian Andes implications for the Eastern Cordillera evolution (Huallaga Basin, northern Peru)

MA Custódio, M Roddaz, RV Santos, EL Dantas… - Global and Planetary …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic Andean mountain building may have experienced
various phases of orogenesis in response to variations the dip angle of the subducting slab …

Volcanic events coincide with plant dispersal across the Northern Andes

MJ Sanín, A Cardona, WA Valencia-Montoya… - Global and Planetary …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Biological dispersal is increasingly seen as a primary driver of speciation across the tropical
Andes. Similarly, growing evidence suggests that the Northern Andes cordilleras formed as …

Repeated structural reworking in the basement of the Central Colombian Andes unraveled by a multi‐chronometric approach

S Zapata, A Cardona, JS Jaramillo‐Ríos… - …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Long‐lived orogens are often characterized by basement blocks affected by polyphase thick‐
skinned deformation. Deciphering these events is challenging due to the heterogeneous …

Diverse magmatic evolutionary trends of the Northern Andes unraveled by Paleocene to early Eocene detrital zircon geochemistry

JS Jaramillo, S Zapata, M Carvalho… - Geochemistry …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Paleocene‐early Eocene continental magmatic arc (PECMA) in the Northern
Andes is an example of arc magmatism following a major collisional event. This arc formed …

New stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental constraints on the Paleogene paleogeography of Western Amazonia

MA Custódio, M Roddaz, RV Santos, PO Antoine… - Journal of South …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The rise of the Andes and the associated propagation of the retroarc foreland basin during
the Mesozoic Cenozoic in western South America shaped the paleogeography and …

[HTML][HTML] Editorial preface to special issue: exploring the impact of Andean uplift and climate on life evolution and landscape modification: from Amazonia to Patagonia

C Hoorn, L Palazzesi, D Silvestro - Global and Planetary Change, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The aim of this Special Issue is to improve understanding of the uplift of the Andes and its far-
reaching impact on climate and biodiversity in South America from the late Mesozoic …