range in the Caribbean of northern Colombia, the Santa Marta range (SM), in order to study
the patterns of Cenozoic mountain building. New AFT and U-Th/He data from river sand
samples of eight catchments draining the eastern flank of the range together with a
compilation of published ages and thermokinematic modeling reveal episodic exhumation
with decreasing rates to the SE, away from the Caribbean-South American plate boundary …