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Overview

Camilo Montes is affiliated with Universidad del Norte in Colombia and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on geophysics, atmospheric science, paleontology, geochemistry and petrology, and environmental engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to research in geological and tectonic studies in Latin America, geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, soil moisture and remote sensing, geology and paleoclimatology research, and evolution and paleontology studies.

Camilo Montes' recent publications include:

  • A Middle to Late Miocene Trans-Andean Portal: Geologic Record in the Tatacoa Desert (2021), Frontiers in Earth Science
  • 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
  • Soil and Air Temperature Calibrations Using Branched GDGTs for the Tropical Andes of Colombia: Toward a Pan-Tropical Calibration (2020), Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • The Peltetec ophiolitic belt (Ecuador): a window to the tectonic evolution of the Triassic margin of western Gondwana (2020), International Geology Review
  • The Colombian geochronological database (CGD) (2021), International Geology Review

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Montes include Lina C. Pérez-Angel, Catalina González, Julio Sepúlveda, Kathryn E. Snell, and Nadia Dildar.

The scientist's work has been published multiple times in various venues, such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • International Geology Review
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

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

  • 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

  • Tectonic reconstruction of the northern Andean blocks: Oblique convergence and rotations derived from the kinematics of the Piedras Girardot area, Colombia

    Camilo Montes;Robert D. Hatcher;Pedro A. Restrepo-Pace

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

    Germán Bayona;Agustín Cardona;Carlos Jaramillo;Andrés Mora

  • Consequences of shoaling of the Central American Seaway determined from modeling Nd isotopes

    P Sepulchre;Thomas Arsouze;Thomas Arsouze;Y Donnadieu;J.-C Dutay

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

    Carlos Jaramillo;Camilo Montes;Agustín Cardona;Daniele Silvestro

  • 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

  • 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

  • First North American fossil monkey and early Miocene tropical biotic interchange

    Jonathan I. Bloch;Emily D. Woodruff;Emily D. Woodruff;Aaron R. Wood;Aaron R. Wood;Aldo F. Rincon;Aldo F. Rincon

  • 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

  • Quaternary glaciation and the Great American Biotic Interchange

    Christine D. Bacon;Christine D. Bacon;Peter Molnar;Alexandre Antonelli;Andrew J. Crawford;Andrew J. Crawford

  • Paleomagnetic data and K–Ar ages from Mesozoic units of the Santa Marta massif: A preliminary interpretation for block rotation and translations

    Germán Bayona;Giovanny Jiménez;César Silva;Agustín Cardona

  • Intraplate subsidence and basin filling adjacent to an oceanic arc–continent collision: a case from the southern Caribbean‐South America plate margin

    Germán Bayona;Camilo Montes;Agustín Cardona;Carlos Jaramillo

  • Revised stratigraphy of Neogene strata in the Cocinetas Basin, La Guajira, Colombia

    F. Moreno;F. Moreno;A. J. W. Hendy;A. J. W. Hendy;L. Quiroz;L. Quiroz;N. Hoyos;N. Hoyos

  • Permian to Triassic I to S-type magmatic switch in the northeast Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and adjacent regions, Colombian Caribbean: Tectonic setting and implications within Pangea paleogeography

    A. Cardona;A. Cardona;V. Valencia;A. Garzón;C. Montes

Frequent Co-Authors

Agustín Cardona
Agustín Cardona National University of Colombia
Carlos Jaramillo
Carlos Jaramillo Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Victor A. Valencia
Victor A. Valencia Washington State University
Andrés Mora
Andrés Mora Ecopetrol (Colombia)
Peter Molnar
Peter Molnar University of Colorado Boulder
Peter W. Reiners
Peter W. Reiners University of Arizona
Jeffrey D. Vervoort
Jeffrey D. Vervoort Washington State University
Bruce J. MacFadden
Bruce J. MacFadden University of Florida
Margarita López-Martínez
Margarita López-Martínez Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada
Balaji Rajagopalan
Balaji Rajagopalan University of Colorado Boulder

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