The geological history of northwestern South America: from Pangaea to the early collision of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province (290–75 Ma)

R Spikings, R Cochrane, D Villagomez… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Northwestern South America preserves a record of the assembly of western
Pangaea, its disassembly and initiation of the far western Tethys Wilson Cycle, subsequent …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] On the origins of the Iapetus Ocean

B Robert, M Domeier, J Jakob - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Iapetus Ocean opened during the fission of the supercontinent Rodinia, from
the breakup of three of its core continental constituents: Laurentia, Baltica and Amazonia …

The Putumayo Orogen of Amazonia and its implications for Rodinia reconstructions: New U–Pb geochronological insights into the Proterozoic tectonic evolution of …

M Ibanez-Mejia, J Ruiz, VA Valencia, A Cardona… - Precambrian …, 2011 - Elsevier
Outcrops of late Meso-to early Neoproterozoic crust in northwestern South America are
restricted to isolated exposures of basement inliers within the northern Andes of Colombia …

Palaeozoic to Early Jurassic history of the northwestern corner of Gondwana, and implications for the evolution of the Iapetus, Rheic and Pacific Oceans

R van der Lelij, R Spikings, A Ulianov, M Chiaradia… - Gondwana …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Palaeozoic to Mesozoic igneous and metamorphic basement rocks exposed in
the Mérida Andes of Venezuela and the Santander Massif of Colombia are generally …

A revised synthesis of the rift and drift history of the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding regions in the light of improved age dating of the Middle Jurassic salt

J Pindell, D Villagómez, R Molina-Garza, R Graham… - 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present an updated, internally consistent synthesis of the Permo-Triassic assembly and
Mesozoic evolution of the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, Florida–Bahamas and northern South …

Late Jurassic terrane collision in the northwestern margin of Gondwana (Cajamarca Complex, eastern flank of the Central Cordillera, Colombia)

IF Blanco-Quintero, A García-Casco… - International Geology …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Medium-grade metabasites and metapelites from the Cajamarca Complex (Central
Cordillera of Colombia) are in fault contact with the Jurassic Ibague batholith and show a …

Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous plutonism in the Colombian Andes: A record of long-term arc maturity

C Bustamante, CJ Archanjo, A Cardona… - …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Integrated geochemical, isotopic, and geochronological constraints from Jurassic plutonic
rocks of the Central Cordillera in Colombia were used to determine the tectonic setting and …

Unraveling crustal growth and reworking processes in complex zircons from orogenic lower-crust: The Proterozoic Putumayo Orogen of Amazonia

M Ibanez-Mejia, A Pullen, J Arenstein, GE Gehrels… - Precambrian …, 2015 - Elsevier
High-grade basement massifs exposed in the northern Andes and the buried basement of
the adjacent Putumayo foreland basin contain a record of Amazonia's involvement in the …

Cretaceous extensional and compressional tectonics in the Northwestern Andes, prior to the collision with the Caribbean oceanic plateau

S Zapata, A Cardona, JS Jaramillo, A Patiño… - Gondwana …, 2019 - Elsevier
The Cretaceous units exposed in the northwestern segment of the Colombian Andes
preserve the record of extensional and compressional tectonics prior to the collision with …