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Agustín Cardona is affiliated with the National University of Colombia and has contributed extensively to Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus on Geophysics. Their research encompasses several intersecting domains including Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Botany and Geology in Latin America and the Caribbean, High-pressure geophysics and materials, and Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and beyond.

Their recent publications reflect a focus on geological processes in the Colombian Andes and include the following works:

  • Sedimentary record of the Cretaceous-Paleocene arc-continent collision in the northwestern Colombian Andes: Insights from stratigraphic and provenance constraints (2020, Sedimentary Geology)
  • Unravelling the widening of the earliest Andean northern orogen: Maastrichtian to early Eocene intra-basinal deformation in the northern Eastern Cordillera of Colombia (2020, Basin Research)
  • Bedrock and detrital zircon thermochronology to unravel exhumation histories of accreted tectonic blocks: An example from the Western Colombian Andes (2020, Journal of South American Earth Sciences)
  • Long-term topographic growth and decay constrained by 3D thermo-kinematic modeling: Tectonic evolution of the Antioquia Altiplano, Northern Andes (2021, Global and Planetary Change)
  • Tectonic implications of the jurassic magmatism and the metamorphic record at the southern Colombian Andes (2021, Journal of South American Earth Sciences)

Cardona frequently publishes in several scholarly venues, where multiple contributions have been made over time. These venues include:

  • International Geology Review
  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Basin Research
  • Global and Planetary Change

Throughout their career, Agustín Cardona has collaborated regularly with a group of researchers. Some of their most frequent co-authors include:

  • S. Zapata
  • V. Valencia
  • J. S. Jaramillo
  • Camilo Bustamante
  • Maurício Parra

Best Publications

  • Middle Miocene closure of the Central American Seaway

    C. Montes;A. Cardona;Carlos A. Jaramillo;A. Pardo

  • Evidence for middle Eocene and younger land emergence in central Panama: Implications for Isthmus closure

    Camilo Montes;Camilo Montes;A. Cardona;A. Cardona;R. McFadden;S.E. Morón

  • Effects of Rapid Global Warming at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary on Neotropical Vegetation

    Carlos Jaramillo;Diana Ochoa;Diana Ochoa;Lineth Contreras;Lineth Contreras;Lineth Contreras;Mark Pagani

  • Fracturing of the Panamanian Isthmus during initial collision with South America

    David W. Farris;Carlos Jaramillo;German Bayona;Sergio A. Restrepo-Moreno;Sergio A. Restrepo-Moreno

  • Arc‐continent collision and orocline formation: Closing of the Central American seaway

    Camilo Montes;Camilo Montes;G. Bayona;A. Cardona;A. Cardona;David M. Buchs

  • Geochronology of Proterozoic basement inliers in the Colombian Andes: tectonic history of remnants of a fragmented Grenville belt

    Umberto Cordani;A. Cardona;D. Jimenez;D Liu

  • Detrital zircon fingerprint of the Proto-Andes: Evidence for a Neoproterozoic active margin?

    David M. Chew;Tomas Magna;Christopher L. Kirkland;Aleksandar Mišković

  • The Putumayo Orogen of Amazonia and its implications for Rodinia reconstructions: New U-Pb geochronological insights into the Proterozoic tectonic evolution of northwestern South America

    Mauricio Ibanez-Mejia;Joaquin Ruiz;Victor A. Valencia;Agustin Cardona

  • Clockwise rotation of the Santa Marta massif and simultaneous Paleogene to Neogene deformation of the Plato-San Jorge and Cesar-Ranchería basins

    Camilo Montes;Georgina Guzman;German Bayona;Agustin Cardona

  • Continental margin response to multiple arc-continent collisions: The northern Andes-Caribbean margin

    Camilo Montes;Andres Felipe Rodriguez-Corcho;German Bayona;Natalia Hoyos

  • Early Paleogene magmatism in the northern Andes: Insights on the effects of Oceanic Plateau-continent convergence

    Germán Bayona;Agustín Cardona;Carlos Jaramillo;Andrés Mora

  • Comment (1) on "Formation of the Isthmus of Panama" by O'Dea et al.

    Carlos Jaramillo;Camilo Montes;Agustín Cardona;Daniele Silvestro

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

    I. F. Blanco-Quintero;A. García-Casco;L. M. Toro;M. Moreno

  • Early-subduction-related orogeny in the northern Andes: Turonian to Eocene magmatic and provenance record in the Santa Marta Massif and Rancheria Basin, northern Colombia

    A. Cardona;V. A. Valencia;G. Bayona;J. Duque

  • Grenvillian remnants in the Northern Andes: Rodinian and Phanerozoic paleogeographic perspectives

    A. Cardona;D. Chew;V.A. Valencia;G. Bayona

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

    Camilo Bustamante;Carlos José Archanjo;Agustin Cardona;Jeffrey D Vervoort

  • Onset of fault reactivation in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia and proximal Llanos Basin; response to Caribbean–South American convergence in early Palaeogene time

    German Bayona;Agustin Cardona;Carlos Jaramillo;Andres Mora

  • U‐Pb Zircon Geochronology and Nd Isotopic Signatures of the Pre‐Mesozoic Metamorphic Basement of the Eastern Peruvian Andes: Growth and Provenance of a Late Neoproterozoic to Carboniferous Accretionary Orogen on the Northwest Margin of Gondwana

    A. Cardona;Umberto Cordani;Umberto Cordani;Joaquin Ruiz;V.A. Valencia;V.A. Valencia

  • Transient slab flattening beneath Colombia

    L. S. Wagner;J. S. Jaramillo;L. F. Ramírez-Hoyos;G. Monsalve

  • Transition From Collisional to Subduction-Related Regimes: An Example From Neogene Panama-Nazca-South America Interactions

    Santiago León;Agustín Cardona;Mauricio Parra;Edward R. Sobel

  • Cambrian–Ordovician orogenesis in Himalayan equatorial Gondwana

    Paul M. Myrow;Nigel C. Hughes;N. Ryan McKenzie;Phuntsho Pelgay

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor A. Valencia
Victor A. Valencia Washington State University
Camilo Montes
Camilo Montes Universidad del Norte
Carlos Jaramillo
Carlos Jaramillo Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Andrés Mora
Andrés Mora Ecopetrol (Colombia)
Antonio García-Casco
Antonio García-Casco University of Granada
Umberto G. Cordani
Umberto G. Cordani Universidade de São Paulo
Jeffrey D. Vervoort
Jeffrey D. Vervoort Washington State University
Joaquin Ruiz
Joaquin Ruiz University of Arizona
David Chew
David Chew Trinity College Dublin
Mauricio Parra
Mauricio Parra Universidade de São Paulo

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