The Caribbean plate and its boundaries with north and south America, marked by
subduction and large intra‐arc strike‐slip faults, are a natural laboratory for the study of …

Using a mega-regional dataset that includes over 20,000 km of on-and offshore 2D seismic
lines and 12 wells, we illustrate three different stages of fault formation and basin evolution …

For over 50 years, several models based on diverse geologic concepts and variable quality
of data have been proposed to explain the major structure and history of the Mérida Andes …

A large fraction of major intracontinental strike-slip faults, defined here as those slip** at
rates of∼ 10 mm/yr or more, lie adjacent to relatively strong regions, such as oceanic …

Abstract The heterogeneous South American geology has coined a wide variety of
neotectonic settings where crustal seismogenic sources do occur. This fact has led to …

This study compiles 20 published field geologic estimates of displacement rates for the
northern Andes, such as displaced glacial moraines and offset pyroclastic flow, and …

Lake sediment records from the Cordillera de Mérida in the northern Venezuelan Andes
document the history of local glacial variability and climate changes during the Holocene (∼ …

The Mérida Andes is a mountain chain that trends SW–NE in western Venezuela, extending
for some 350km from the Colombian–Venezuelan border to the city of Barquisimeto. Its …

The Pallatanga fault (PF) is a prominent NNE-SSW strike–slip fault crossing Central
Ecuador. This structure is suspected to have hosted large earthquakes, including the 1797 …

Based on regional geology and stress tensor analysis from fault slickensides, we propose a
structural model to explain the present-day configuration of a crystalline core in the northern …