Geology and Tectonics of Northwestern South America: The Pacific-Caribbean-Andean Junction

Chapter 1 - Regional Overview

1.1. Phanerozoic Orogens of NW South America: Cordilleran Type, Taphrogenic Mountain Building and the Cenozoic Orogenic Float

1.2. Paleocontinental Reconstructions of The Americas

Chapter 2 - The Guiana Shield and the Andean Belt

2.1. The Proterozoic Basement of the Western Guiana Shield and the Northern Andes

2.2. Basement of the Cretaceous Basin in North-Central Colombia: Lesson from the Santander Massif

Chapter 3 - Early and Late Paleozoic Tectono-Sedimentary History

3.1. Contrasting Lower to Upper Paleozoic Orogenic Styles and Depositional Sequences in NW South America

3.1.1. Early Paleozoic (Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian)

3.1.2. Late Paleozoic (Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian)

Chapter 4 - Major Tectono-Magmatic Events

4.1. Phanerozoic Granitoid Magmatism in Colombia and Tectono-Magmatic Evolution of the Colombian Andes

4.2. Cenozoic Magmatism of the Maracaibo Block and its Tectonic Significance

4.3. Cenozoic Northern Andean Volcanism: A Petrographical, Geochemical and Geocronological Review

Chapter 5 - The Northern Andean Orogen

5.1. Structural Map of Colombia, NW South America. Field Structural Cross-Sections

5.2. Cretaceous Basin Development. Facies and Paleogeography

5.3. Tectonic and Climate Controls on the Patterns of Topography in a Double-Sided Critical Wedge. Tectonic Inversion in the Eastern Cordillera

5.4. Morphotectonics and Orogenic Development of the Northern Andes of Colombia: Geodynamic and Paleogeographic Implications

5.5. The Romeral Shear Zone

Chapter 6 - Continental Uplift-Drift

6.1. Thermochronology and Tectonics of the Mérida Andes, Santander Massif - Perijá and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, North-Western South America

6.2. Paleomagnetic Analysis of Mesozoic Rock Units and Its Bearing on Tectonic Reconstructions of NW South America

Chapter 7 - Active Oceanic-Continental Collision

7.1. The Geology of the Panama-Choco Arc

7.2. Continental - Oceanic Interaction in the South Caribbean, Colombian Margin

7.3. Two Distinct Cenozoic Orogenic Ranges: Serranía del Baudó (Pacific Realm) and  Sierra Nevada De Santa Marta (Caribbean Realm). Geophysical Analysis Based on Potential Field Data

Chapter 8 - Caribbean Oceanic Archipielago

Chapter 9 - Holocene - Anthropocene

9.1. Sediment Transfers from The Andes of Colombia During the Anthropocene

9.2. The Historical, Geomorphological Evolution of The Colombian Littoral Zones (XVIII Century to Present)