Subduction of the Coiba Plate underneath the North Andes Plate causes frequent earthquakes in the
Bucaramanga Nest, the most seismically active area in the world. The
Bucaramanga-Santa Marta Fault stretches along the plate for more than 600 kilometers from north to south. The plate boundary with the South American Plate is most tectonically active along a more than 900 kilometer long megaregional
fault system; the
Eastern Frontal Fault System.
This fault system, extending into Ecuador and Venezuela all along the northern Andes, separates the terranes from the North Andes Plate from:[3]
South American Plate features bordering the
Chibcha Terrane of the North Andes Plate
Gómez Tapias, Jorge; Nohora E. Montes Ramírez; María F. Almanza Meléndez; Fernando A. Alcárcel Gutiérrez; César A. Madrid Montoya, and Hans Diederix. 2015. Geological Map of Colombia, 1–212.
Servicio Geológico Colombiano. Accessed 2019-10-29.
Parra, Felipe de la; Andrés Mora; Milton Rueda, and Isaid Quintero. 2015. Temporal and spatial distribution of tectonic events as deduced from reworked palynomorphs in the eastern Northern Andes. AAPG Bulletin 99. 1455–1472. .
Egbue, Obi; James Kellogg; Hector Aguirre, and Carolina Torres. 2014. Evolution of the stress and strain fields in the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia. Journal of Structural Geology 58. 8–21. .
Perico Martínez, Néstor Rafael, and Néstor Rafael Perico Granados. 2014. Caracterización y recurrencia sísmica del Nido de Bucaramanga, 1–19. V Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería Civil,
Universidad Santo Tomás Seccional Tunja.
Yarce, Jefferson; Gaspar Monsalve; Thorsten W. Becker; Agustín Cardona; Esteban Poveda; Daniel Alvira, and Oswaldo Ordoñez Carmona. 2014. Seismological observations in Northwestern South America: Evidence for two subduction segments, contrasting crustal thicknesses and upper mantle flow. Tectonophysics 637. 57–67. .
Jiménez Díaz, Giovanny. 2013. Relationship between curved thrust belts, rift inversion, oblique convergence and strike-slip faulting - an example of Eastern Cordillera in Colombia (PhD thesis), 1–106.
Università di Roma.
García González, Mario; Ricardo Mier Umaña; Luis Enrique Cruz Guevara, and Mauricio Vásquez. 2009. Informe Ejecutivo - evaluación del potencial hidrocarburífero de las cuencas colombianas, 1–219.
Universidad Industrial de Santander.
Parra, Mauricio; Andrés Mora; Edward R. Sobel; Manfred R. Strecker; Carlos
Jaramillo; Paul B. O'Sullivan, and Román González. 2008. Cenozoic Orogenic Growth of the North Andes: Shortening and Exhumation Histories of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia, 1–27.
AAPG Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas.
Barrero, Dario; Andrés Pardo; Carlos A. Vargas, and Juan F. Martínez. 2007. Colombian Sedimentary Basins: Nomenclature, Boundaries and Petroleum Geology, a New Proposal, 1–92.
ANH.
Cediel, Fabio; Robert P. Shaw, and Carlos Cáceres. 2003. Tectonic Assembly of the Northern Andean Block - The Circum-Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean: Hydrocarbon habitats, basin formation, and plate tectonics. AAPG Memoir 79. 815–848. .
Colmenares, Lourdes, and Mark D. Zoback. 2003. Stress field and seismotectonics of northern South America. Geology 31. 721–724. .
Nevistic, A.V.; E.A. Rossello; C.E. Haring; G. Covellone; F. Bettini; H. Rodríguez; R. Salay; C. Colo, and L. Araque, E. Castro, C. Pinilla, C.P. Bordarampé. 2003. The Andean Santander-Oriental Tectonic Syntaxis: A first-order pattern controlling exploration play-model concepts in Colombia, 130–134. VIII Simposio Bolivariano - Exploración Petrolera en las Cuencas Subandinas.
Guerrero Uscátegui, Alberto Lobo. 1992. Geología e Hidrogeología de Santafé de Bogotá y su Sabana, 1–20. Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros.
Orrego, Abigail; Luis León; Luis Eduardo Padilla; Álvaro Pablo Acevedo, and Nelson Marulanda. 1999. Plancha 364 - Timbío - 1:100,000, 1.
INGEOMINAS. Accessed 2017-06-06.
Gómez Tapias, Jorge; Montes Ramírez, Nohora E.; Almanza Meléndez, María F.; Alcárcel Gutiérrez, Fernando A.; Madrid Montoya, César A.; Diederix, Hans (2015).
Geological Map of Colombia.
Servicio Geológico Colombiano. pp. 1–212. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
Subduction of the Coiba Plate underneath the North Andes Plate causes frequent earthquakes in the
Bucaramanga Nest, the most seismically active area in the world. The
Bucaramanga-Santa Marta Fault stretches along the plate for more than 600 kilometers from north to south. The plate boundary with the South American Plate is most tectonically active along a more than 900 kilometer long megaregional
fault system; the
Eastern Frontal Fault System.
This fault system, extending into Ecuador and Venezuela all along the northern Andes, separates the terranes from the North Andes Plate from:[3]
South American Plate features bordering the
Chibcha Terrane of the North Andes Plate
Gómez Tapias, Jorge; Nohora E. Montes Ramírez; María F. Almanza Meléndez; Fernando A. Alcárcel Gutiérrez; César A. Madrid Montoya, and Hans Diederix. 2015. Geological Map of Colombia, 1–212.
Servicio Geológico Colombiano. Accessed 2019-10-29.
Parra, Felipe de la; Andrés Mora; Milton Rueda, and Isaid Quintero. 2015. Temporal and spatial distribution of tectonic events as deduced from reworked palynomorphs in the eastern Northern Andes. AAPG Bulletin 99. 1455–1472. .
Egbue, Obi; James Kellogg; Hector Aguirre, and Carolina Torres. 2014. Evolution of the stress and strain fields in the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia. Journal of Structural Geology 58. 8–21. .
Perico Martínez, Néstor Rafael, and Néstor Rafael Perico Granados. 2014. Caracterización y recurrencia sísmica del Nido de Bucaramanga, 1–19. V Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería Civil,
Universidad Santo Tomás Seccional Tunja.
Yarce, Jefferson; Gaspar Monsalve; Thorsten W. Becker; Agustín Cardona; Esteban Poveda; Daniel Alvira, and Oswaldo Ordoñez Carmona. 2014. Seismological observations in Northwestern South America: Evidence for two subduction segments, contrasting crustal thicknesses and upper mantle flow. Tectonophysics 637. 57–67. .
Jiménez Díaz, Giovanny. 2013. Relationship between curved thrust belts, rift inversion, oblique convergence and strike-slip faulting - an example of Eastern Cordillera in Colombia (PhD thesis), 1–106.
Università di Roma.
García González, Mario; Ricardo Mier Umaña; Luis Enrique Cruz Guevara, and Mauricio Vásquez. 2009. Informe Ejecutivo - evaluación del potencial hidrocarburífero de las cuencas colombianas, 1–219.
Universidad Industrial de Santander.
Parra, Mauricio; Andrés Mora; Edward R. Sobel; Manfred R. Strecker; Carlos
Jaramillo; Paul B. O'Sullivan, and Román González. 2008. Cenozoic Orogenic Growth of the North Andes: Shortening and Exhumation Histories of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia, 1–27.
AAPG Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas.
Barrero, Dario; Andrés Pardo; Carlos A. Vargas, and Juan F. Martínez. 2007. Colombian Sedimentary Basins: Nomenclature, Boundaries and Petroleum Geology, a New Proposal, 1–92.
ANH.
Cediel, Fabio; Robert P. Shaw, and Carlos Cáceres. 2003. Tectonic Assembly of the Northern Andean Block - The Circum-Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean: Hydrocarbon habitats, basin formation, and plate tectonics. AAPG Memoir 79. 815–848. .
Colmenares, Lourdes, and Mark D. Zoback. 2003. Stress field and seismotectonics of northern South America. Geology 31. 721–724. .
Nevistic, A.V.; E.A. Rossello; C.E. Haring; G. Covellone; F. Bettini; H. Rodríguez; R. Salay; C. Colo, and L. Araque, E. Castro, C. Pinilla, C.P. Bordarampé. 2003. The Andean Santander-Oriental Tectonic Syntaxis: A first-order pattern controlling exploration play-model concepts in Colombia, 130–134. VIII Simposio Bolivariano - Exploración Petrolera en las Cuencas Subandinas.
Guerrero Uscátegui, Alberto Lobo. 1992. Geología e Hidrogeología de Santafé de Bogotá y su Sabana, 1–20. Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros.
Orrego, Abigail; Luis León; Luis Eduardo Padilla; Álvaro Pablo Acevedo, and Nelson Marulanda. 1999. Plancha 364 - Timbío - 1:100,000, 1.
INGEOMINAS. Accessed 2017-06-06.
Gómez Tapias, Jorge; Montes Ramírez, Nohora E.; Almanza Meléndez, María F.; Alcárcel Gutiérrez, Fernando A.; Madrid Montoya, César A.; Diederix, Hans (2015).
Geological Map of Colombia.
Servicio Geológico Colombiano. pp. 1–212. Retrieved 2019-10-29.