GPlates dataset for the tectonic reconstruction of the Northern Andes-Caribbean Margin

Camilo Montes; Andres Felipe Rodriguez-Corcho; German Bayona; Natalia Hoyos; Sebastian Zapata; Agustin Cardona

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104398

GPlates dataset for the tectonic reconstruction of the Northern Andes-Caribbean Margin

Data Brief. 2019 Aug 19:25:104398. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104398. eCollection 2019 Aug.

Authors

Camilo Montes¹, Andres Felipe Rodriguez-Corcho², German Bayona³, Natalia Hoyos⁴, Sebastian Zapata⁵, Agustin Cardona⁶

Affiliations

¹ Departament of Physics and Geosciences, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia.
² School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
³ Corporación Geológica Ares, Bogotá, Colombia.
⁴ Departament of History and Social Sciences, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia.
⁵ Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.
⁶ Departamento de Procesos y Energía, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia.

Abstract

This contribution contains a GPlates digital reconstruction of the northern Andes and southern Caribbean margin for the last 90 Ma. It is built using different strain datasets fully described in "Continental Margin Response to Multiple Arc-Continent Collisions: the Northern Andes-Caribbean Margin" [1]. Two digital reconstructions are included here: one is a rigid block reconstruction, and the other is a continuously closing polygon reconstruction digitized every one -million years. We placed the South and North American plates at the root of the reconstruction tree, so that the Andean blocks move with respect to the former, and the Caribbean Plate, and related intra-oceanic arcs with respect to the latter. These reconstructions can be used as templates to place in palinspastic space any dataset that can be represented by lines or points.

Keywords: Andes; Caribbean; Cenozoic; GPlates; Palinspastic reconstruction; Tectonics.