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) …

Linking Late Cretaceous to Eocene tectonostratigraphy of the San Jacinto fold belt of NW Colombia with Caribbean plateau collision and flat subduction

JA Mora, O Oncken, E Le Breton, M Ibánez‐Mejia… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Collision with and subduction of an oceanic plateau is a rare and transient process that
usually leaves an indirect imprint only. Through a tectonostratigraphic analysis of pre …

Receiver functions and crustal structure of the northwestern Andean region, Colombia

E Poveda, G Monsalve… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We used the receiver function technique to deduce crustal thickness beneath the
northwestern Andean system, using data from the permanent seismic network of Colombia …

Upper and middle crustal velocity structure of the Colombian Andes from ambient noise tomography: Investigating subduction‐related magmatism in the overriding …

E Poveda, J Julià, M Schimmel… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
New maps of S velocity variation for the upper and middle crust making up the northwestern
most corner of South America have been developed from cross correlation of ambient …

Earthquake, tomographic, seismic reflection, and gravity evidence for a shallowly dip** subduction zone beneath the Caribbean Margin of Northwestern Colombia

R Bernal-Olaya, P Mann, CA Vargas - 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Earthquake hypocenter relocations, earthquake focal mechanisms, P-wave velocity anomaly
tomography, interpretation of deep-penetration seismic reflection lines, and gravity modeling …

Seismological observations in Northwestern South America: Evidence for two subduction segments, contrasting crustal thicknesses and upper mantle flow

J Yarce, G Monsalve, TW Becker, A Cardona… - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
The cause of tectonic deformation in northwestern South America and its link to upper
mantle structure and flow are debated. We use a combination of broadband and short period …

Thermochronologic and geomorphometric constraints on the Cenozoic landscape evolution of the Northern Andes: Northwestern Central Cordillera, Colombia

S Noriega-Londoño, SA Restrepo-Moreno, C Vinasco… - Geomorphology, 2020 - Elsevier
New geochronologic, thermochronologic, and geomorphometric landscape analyses were
performed to discriminate the relationships between tectonics and geomorphology in the …

Provenance of the Cenozoic siliciclastic intramontane Amagá Formation: Implications for the early Miocene collision between Central and South America

M Lara, AM Salazar-Franco, JC Silva-Tamayo - Sedimentary Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The late Oligocene-middle Miocene Amagá Formation is a continental siliciclastic
succession deposited along several semi-isolated intramontane sedimentary basins in the …

[PDF][PDF] Subduction geometries in northwestern South America

CA Vargas - The geology of Colombia, 2019 - researchgate.net
Using hypocentral solutions and arrival times of first P and S waves recorded by stations of
the Red Sismológica Nacional de Colombia (RSNC), as well as GPS, gravity, and magnetic …

Petrogenesis and tectonic implication of the Late Mesozoic volcanic rocks in East Mongolia

A Bars, L Miao, Z Fochin, M Baatar, C Anaad… - Geological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents new geochemical and geochronological data of the Late Mesozoic
volcanic rocks in East Mongolia. These volcanic rocks belong to high‐K calc‐alkaline and …