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Mauricio Parra is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil and is active in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on geophysics, with additional work in ocean engineering, artificial intelligence applications within geosciences, nature and landscape conservation, and geochemistry and petrology.

Their research topics encompass:

  • Geological and Tectonic Studies in Latin America
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials

Mauricio Parra has published extensively in several notable scientific venues including:

  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Tectonics
  • Basin Research
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Some recently published papers by Mauricio Parra include:

  • "The Case for Tectonic Control on Erosional Exhumation on the Tropical Northern Andes Based on Thermochronology Data," 2021, Tectonics
  • "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
  • "The Timing of Collision Between Asia and the West Burma Terrane, and the Development of the Indo-Burman Ranges," 2022, Tectonics
  • "Drainage and sedimentary response of the Northern Andes and the Pebas system to Miocene strike-slip tectonics: A source to sink study of the Magdalena Basin," 2023, Basin Research
  • "Complex Basement-Involved Contractional Structures in the Pre-Andean Basins of Northern Chile: A Review From Seismic Data," 2020, Tectonics

Mauricio Parra frequently collaborates with a core group of co-authors, which includes:

  • Edward R. Sobel
  • Andrés Mora
  • V. Valencia
  • S. Zapata
  • A. Cardona

Best Publications

  • Cenozoic contractional reactivation of Mesozoic extensional structures in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia

    Andrés Mora;Mauricio Parra;Manfred R. Strecker;Andreas Kammer

  • Climatic forcing of asymmetric orogenic evolution in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia

    Andrés Mora;Mauricio Parra;Manfred R. Strecker;Edward R. Sobel

  • Episodic orogenic front migration in the northern Andes: Constraints from low‐temperature thermochronology in the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia

    Mauricio Parra;Andres Mora;Andres Mora;Edward R. Sobel;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Tectonic History of the Andes and Sub‐Andean Zones: Implications for the Development of the Amazon Drainage Basin

    Andres Mora;Patrice Baby;Martin Roddaz;Mauricio Parra

  • Migration of Cenozoic deformation in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia interpreted from fission track results and structural relationships: Implications for petroleum systems

    Andrés Mora;Brian K. Horton;Andrés Mesa;Jorge Rubiano

  • Linking sedimentation in the northern Andes to basement configuration, Mesozoic extension, and Cenozoic shortening: Evidence from detrital zircon U-Pb ages, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia

    Brian K. Horton;Joel E. Saylor;Junsheng Nie;Andrés Mora

  • Orogenic wedge advance in the northern Andes: Evidence from the Oligocene-Miocene sedimentary record of the Medina Basin, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia

    Mauricio Parra;Andres Mora;Carlos A. Jaramillo;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Integrated provenance analysis of a convergent retroarc foreland system: U-Pb ages, heavy minerals, Nd isotopes, and sandstone compositions of the Middle Magdalena Valley basin, northern Andes, Colombia

    Junsheng Nie;Junsheng Nie;Brian K. Horton;Joel E. Saylor;Andrés Mora

  • Inversion tectonics under increasing rates of shortening and sedimentation: Cenozoic example from the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia

    Andrés Mora;Andrés Reyes-Harker;Guillermo Rodriguez;Eliseo Tesón

  • Detecting earliest shortening and deformation advance in thrust belt hinterlands: Example from the Colombian Andes

    Mauricio Parra;Mauricio Parra;Andrés Mora;Cristina Lopez;Luis Ernesto Rojas

  • Cenozoic Sedimentary Evolution of the Amazonian Foreland Basin System

    Martin Roddaz;Wilber Hermoza;Andres Mora;Patrice Baby

  • Resolving uplift of the Northern Andes using detrital zircon age signatures

    Brian K. Horton;Mauricio Parra;Joel E. Saylor;Junsheng Nie

  • Tectonic controls on Cenozoic foreland basin development in the north-eastern Andes, Colombia

    Mauricio Parra;Andrés Mora;Andrés Mora;Carlos Jaramillo;Vladimir Torres

  • Application of detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology to surface and subsurface correlations of provenance, paleodrainage, and tectonics of the Middle Magdalena Valley Basin of Colombia

    Brian K. Horton;Veronica J. Anderson;Victor Caballero;Joel E. Saylor

  • The eastern foothills of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia: An example of multiple factors controlling structural styles and active tectonics

    Andrés Mora;Andrés Mora;Mauricio Parra;Manfred R. Strecker;Edward R. Sobel

  • Cenozoic paleogeography of the Andean foreland and retroarc hinterland of Colombia

    Andrés Reyes-Harker;Carlos Fernando Ruiz-Valdivieso;Andrés Mora;Juan Carlos Ramírez-Arias

  • The role of inherited extensional fault segmentation and linkage in contractional orogenesis: a reconstruction of Lower Cretaceous inverted rift basins in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia

    Andrés Mora;Tatiana Gaona;Jonas Kley;Diana Montoya

  • 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

  • Tectonic controls on sedimentation in an intermontane hinterland basin adjacent to inversion structures: the Nuevo Mundo syncline, Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia

    Víctor Caballero;Andrés Mora;Isaid Quintero;Vladimir Blanco

  • Clastic deposition, provenance, and sequence of Andean thrusting in the frontal Eastern Cordillera and Llanos foreland basin of Colombia

    Alejandro Bande;Brian K. Horton;Juan C. Ramírez;Juan C. Ramírez;Andrés Mora

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrés Mora
Andrés Mora Ecopetrol (Colombia)
Brian K. Horton
Brian K. Horton The University of Texas at Austin
Daniel F. Stockli
Daniel F. Stockli The University of Texas at Austin
Edward R. Sobel
Edward R. Sobel University of Potsdam
Manfred R. Strecker
Manfred R. Strecker University of Potsdam
Victor A. Valencia
Victor A. Valencia Washington State University
Carlos Jaramillo
Carlos Jaramillo Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Richard A. Ketcham
Richard A. Ketcham The University of Texas at Austin
Joel E. Saylor
Joel E. Saylor University of British Columbia
Agustín Cardona
Agustín Cardona National University of Colombia

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