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 …

This paper gives an overview of the large-scale tectonic styles encountered in orogens
worldwide. Thin-skinned and thick-skinned tectonics represent two end member styles …

Landslides typify one of the most hazardous natural phenomena fostering economic and
even human losses worldwide. Several countries like Colombia, in South America, are …

Abstract The Northern Andes of Colombia is a key locality for understanding tectonic
inversion of symmetric rifts. A review of available data on structural geometry and …

Abstract The Devonian Period experienced the proliferation of vascular plants and had the
highest levels of carbonate production, reef-building, and marine faunal diversity in the …

The northwestern corner of South America presents a highly complex geodynamical setting
including the convergence between South America, Nazca, and Caribbean plates; which …

A combination of new surface and subsurface structural data, new stratigraphic data on
conventional provenance, facies and palaeocurrents, low-temperature thermochronology …

The onset of deformation in the northern Andes is overprinted by subsequent stages of basin
deformation, complicating the examination of competing models illustrating potential …

The topographic growth of a mountain belt is commonly attributed to isostatic balance in
response to crustal and lithospheric thickening. However, deeper mantle processes may …

The initial stages of tectonic inversion and the mechanisms of selective reactivation and
abandonment of pre-existing normal faults during contractional orogenesis are explored in a …