An integration of diverse strain markers into a palinspastic reconstruction of the northern
Andes provides a first-order quantitative approximation to the response of a complex margin …

Reconfigurations of magmatic arcs through time have been recognized since pioneering
works, describing inland and trenchward arc migrations or magmatic shut-off lasting for …

Integration of several geologic lines of evidence reveals the prevalence of a lowland trans-
Andean portal communicating western Amazonia and the westernmost Andes from at least …

Broken foreland basins are caused by crustal-scale contractional basement structures that
compartmentalize (or break) a contiguous retroarc or collisional foreland basin into smaller …

Key Points We evaluate the Miocene tectonic evolution of the northwestern Andes of
Colombia through a multitechnical approach Ongoing exhumation and deposition of middle …

Shortening of the continental lithosphere is generally accommodated by the growth of
crustal wedges building above megathrusts in the mantle lithosphere. We show that the …

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 …

Abstract Both the Caribbean and Nazca plates subduct beneath northwestern South
America. The configuration of the two subducted slabs and the nature of any interaction …

Unconformities in foreland basins may be generated by tectonic processes that operate in
the basin, the adjacent fold–thrust belt or the broader convergent margin. Foreland basin …

The Caribbean plate is an enclosed oceanic basin whose formation and evolution are
controversial. In the most commonly accepted model, the Caribbean plate is mainly …