The Northern Andean Block is the result of complex tectonic interaction between the Farallon-Nazca, South American, and Caribbean Plates. Abundant late Cenozoic volcanism (and associated hypabyssal porphyritic plutonism), beginning in the mid- to late Miocene, is the result of subduction-related mantle-derived magmatic activity, superimposed upon a compositionally varied and structurally complex basement during the late stages of the Northern Andean orogeny. Tectonic consolidation and subduction of the segmented Nazca Plate during the late Miocene-Pliocene led to conformation of the modern-day Colombian segment of the Northern Andean Volcanic Zone. The Colombian arc segment represents the northernmost expression of subduction-related volcanism within South America’s Andean Cordillera.
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Marín-Cerón, M. I., Leal-Mejía, H., Bernet, M., & Mesa-García, J. (2019). Late Cenozoic to modern-day volcanism in the Northern Andes: A geochronological, petrographical, and geochemical review. In Frontiers in Earth Sciences (pp. 603–648). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76132-9_8
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