Continental margin response to multiple arc-continent collisions: The northern Andes-Caribbean margin

C Montes, AF Rodriguez-Corcho, G Bayona… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

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) …

A middle to late Miocene trans-Andean portal: geologic record in the Tatacoa Desert

C Montes, CA Silva, GA Bayona, R Villamil… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
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 …

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 …

Structure and age of the Lower Magdalena Valley basin basement, northern Colombia: New reflection-seismic and U-Pb-Hf insights into the termination of the central …

JA Mora-Bohórquez, M Ibánez-Mejia, O Oncken… - Journal of South …, 2017 - Elsevier
Detailed interpretations of reflection seismic data and new U-Pb and Hf isotope
geochemistry in zircon, reveal that the basement of the Lower Magdalena Valley basin is the …

Geochemistry and isotopic signatures of Paleogene plutonic and detrital rocks of the Northern Andes of Colombia: A record of post-collisional arc magmatism

C Bustamante, A Cardona, CJ Archanjo, G Bayona… - Lithos, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Between the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene, the Northern Andes experienced
subduction and collision due to the convergence between the oceanic Caribbean Plate and …

The Paleogene arcs of the northern Andes of Colombia and Panama: Insights on plate kinematic implications from new and existing geochemical, geochronological …

A Cardona, S León, JS Jaramillo, C Montes, V Valencia… - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The northern Andes of Colombia comprise two non-cogenetic Paleogene arcs
formed in contrasting geodynamic settings including continental and oceanic domains. New …

Unravelling the widening of the earliest Andean northern orogen: Maastrichtian to early Eocene intra‐basinal deformation in the northern Eastern Cordillera of …

G Bayona, M Baquero, C Ramírez, M Tabares… - Basin …, 2021 - earthdoc.org
The onset of deformation in the northern Andes is overprinted by subsequent stages of basin
deformation, complicating the examination of competing models illustrating potential …

Cretaceous stratigraphy and paleo-facies maps of northwestern South America

LF Sarmiento-Rojas - Geology and Tectonics of Northwestern South …, 2019 - Springer
This paper presents 13 stratigraphic cross sections and 12 paleo-facies maps, spanning the
Cretaceous, and summarizes the Cretaceous geological history surrounding northwestern …

Contemporaneous Paleogene arc-magmatism within continental and accreted oceanic arc complexes in the northwestern Andes and Panama

ÁA Barbosa-Espitia, GD Kamenov, DA Foster… - Lithos, 2019 - Elsevier
The basement rocks of the northwestern Andes are composed of accreted, fault bound,
slivers of the Cretaceous Caribbean Large Igneous Province (CLIP). Previous geologic …