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Overview

Victor A. Valencia is affiliated with Washington State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their body of work spans a wide range of topics focused primarily on geological and tectonic studies, particularly in Latin America.

Their research output includes notable contributions within several specialized subfields, including:

  • Geophysics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Paleontology
  • Earth-Surface Processes

Central to their research are topics related to geological and geochemical analysis along with geological and tectonic studies in Latin America. Other areas of focus include earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, geology and paleoclimatology research, high-pressure geophysics and materials, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Victor A. Valencia has published in several journals, frequently contributing to the following publication venues:

  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • International Geology Review
  • Tectonics
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Basin Research

Key recent papers by Valencia highlight diverse aspects of tectonics and erosion, including:

  • 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
  • Tectonosedimentary evolution of the Coastal Cordillera and Central Depression of south-Central Chile (36°30'-42°S), 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Santonian-Campanian continentalization in the Austral-Magallanes basin: regional correlation, provenance and geodynamic setting, 2021, Cretaceous Research
  • Tectonic implications of the jurassic magmatism and the metamorphic record at the southern Colombian Andes, 2021, Journal of South American Earth Sciences

Collaborations form an important part of Valencia's work, with frequent coauthors including:

  • A. Cardona
  • S. Zapata
  • J. S. Jaramillo
  • Maurício Parra
  • Alfonso Encinas

This network of coauthors reflects Valencia's significant engagement in fields closely linked to tectonics and geological processes in South America.

Best Publications

  • Enhanced precision, accuracy, efficiency, and spatial resolution of U-Pb ages by laser ablation-multicollector-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry

    George E. Gehrels;Victor A. Valencia;Joaquin Ruiz

  • Middle Miocene closure of the Central American Seaway

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

  • Detrital Zircon Geochronology by Laser-Ablation Multicollector ICPMS at the Arizona LaserChron Center

    George Gehrels;Victor Valencia;Alex Pullen

  • 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

  • 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

  • Detrital zircon ages of Neoproterozoic sedimentary successions in Uruguay and Argentina: Insights into the geological evolution of the Río de la Plata Craton

    Claudio Gaucher;Stanley C. Finney;Daniel Gustavo Poire;Víctor A. Valencia

  • 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

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

    Germán Bayona;Agustín Cardona;Carlos Jaramillo;Andrés Mora

  • Timing constraints on building an intermediate plutonic arc crustal section: U‐ Pb zircon geochronology of the Sierra Valle Fértil–La Huerta, Famatinian arc, Argentina

    Mihai N. Ducea;Juan E. Otamendi;George Bergantz;Kelley M. Stair

  • Small-volume U–Pb zircon geochronology by laser ablation-multicollector-ICP-MS

    Scott Johnston;George Gehrels;Victor Valencia;Joaquin Ruiz

  • Halogens, trace element concentrations, and Sr-Nd isotopes in apatite from iron oxide-apatite (IOA) deposits in the Chilean iron belt: Evidence for magmatic and hydrothermal stages of mineralization

    Gisella Palma;Fernando Barra;Martin Reich;Victor Valencia

  • 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

  • Geologic evolution of the Xolapa Complex, southern Mexico: Evidence from U-Pb zircon geochronology

    Mihai N. Ducea;George E. Gehrels;Sarah Shoemaker;Joaquin Ruiz

  • Significance of Provenance Ages from the Chiapas Massif Complex (Southeastern Mexico): Redefining the Paleozoic Basement of the Maya Block and Its Evolution in a Peri-Gondwanan Realm

    Bodo Weber;Victor A. Valencia;Peter Schaaf;Valerie Pompa-Mera

  • Laramide Porphyry Cu-Mo Mineralization in Northern Mexico: Age Constraints from Re-Os Geochronology in Molybdenite

    Fernando Barra;Joaquin Ruiz;Victor A. Valencia;Lucas Ochoa-Landín

  • U–Pb zircon and Re–Os molybdenite geochronology from La Caridad porphyry copper deposit: insights for the duration of magmatism and mineralization in the Nacozari District, Sonora, Mexico

    Victor A. Valencia;J. Ruiz;F. Barra;F. Barra;G. Geherls

  • Detrital zircon U/Pb geochronology of southern Guerrero and western Mixteca arc successions (southern Mexico): New insights for the tectonic evolution of southwestern North America during the late Mesozoic

    Oscar Talavera-Mendoza;Joaquín Ruiz;George E. Gehrels;Victor A. Valencia

Frequent Co-Authors

Agustín Cardona
Agustín Cardona National University of Colombia
Joaquin Ruiz
Joaquin Ruiz University of Arizona
Camilo Montes
Camilo Montes Universidad del Norte
George E. Gehrels
George E. Gehrels University of Arizona
Carlos Jaramillo
Carlos Jaramillo Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Mihai N. Ducea
Mihai N. Ducea University of Arizona
Andrés Mora
Andrés Mora Ecopetrol (Colombia)
Andrés Folguera
Andrés Folguera University of Buenos Aires
Mauricio Parra
Mauricio Parra Universidade de São Paulo
Margarita López-Martínez
Margarita López-Martínez Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada

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