Sunday, 17 April – Monday, 18 April 2022, 6:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m., Valledupar, Colombia - Hotel Tativan
Meso-Cenozoic Basin Formation and Destruction Associated to the Interaction of Pacific, Caribbean and South American Plates
This field trip will review key exposures of the Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleogene and Neogene extensional, contractional and transtensional basins that have growth in the Southern Margin of the Caribbean as a consequence of Caribbean plate formation and subsequent orthogonal to oblique convergence, and with variation from normal to shallow subduction.