Assistant Professor at the Institute of Geoscienceis at the University of Sao Paulo (IGc-USP) and Lecturer in the Geochemistry and Geotectonics Graduate Program at the IGc-USP and the Energy Graduate Program at the Institute of Earth and Environment of the same university (IEE-USP. I hold a BSc degree (2000) from the National University of Colombia-Bogotá and a PhD in Geociences (2009) from the University of Potsdam (Germany). Between 2009 and 2010 I was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jackson School of Geociences, University of Texas at Austin (USA) and between 2010 and 2014, Research Scientist and Consultant at the Colombian Institute for Petroleum (ICP-Ecopetrol). I am Young Researcher Fellow from the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) for installing and managing a Low-Temperature Thermocrhonology laboratory and research group at the IEE-USP. My research interests are on surface processes that occur along active orogens and the evolution of their associated sedimentary basins, including the study of their mineral resources. His work includes a strong component of field-based observations and laboratory analysis devoted to track the age and rates of rock subsidence, uplift and exhumation, mainly through the reconstruction of the thermal history of rocks. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Reconstructing the topographic evolution of mountains aids our understanding of the geodynamic processes that shape the Earth´s surface, its interaction with atmospheric circulation, and the ensuing development of ecosystems and biomes. One of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth lies in the Amazon basin (Antonelli et al., 2018), in particular along its western sector (e.g. Barthlott …
The structural architecture and the tectonic evolution of the western Central Andes remains an open debate due to the absence of key geological constrains such as the structural styles in subsurface, ages of the geological units, and age of deformation. A proper understanding of these elements is key to assess the interplay between structure, growth mechanism and timing of deformation in …
The main goal of this proposal is to foster the exchange of researchers with complementary expertise in paleothermometric methods from the Universities of Sao Paulo and Cordoba, ultimately aimed at establishing a methodology for the assessment of the thermal evolution of sedimentary basins, and to apply this concept to the intermontane basins of the Sierras Pampenanas in NW Argentina. In …
This project aims to develop and exploit a new strategy to constrain the thermal histories of rocks over geological time. Such thermal histories provide unique information on the timing, rates and duration of fundamental geological processes. The analytical methods used are known- as thermochronometry, relying OM temperature sensitive dating methods. Here we propose a novel combination of…
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Low-temperature thermochronology has become one of the most widely employed techniques to address the spatial and temporal pattern of orogenesis (e.g., Reiners and Brandon, 2006), as it allows to extract the thermal history that a rock has experienced in the uppermost few kilometers of the crust. In orogenic settings, and less so in cratons, (U-Th)/He has the potential to resolve these h…
Provenance analysis allows the detection of erosional windows in active orogens by tracking sediment populations in their adjacent basins, providing useful information to track orogenic uplift and exhumation. One prominent example is found in the northern Andes, where rock uplift formed the current amazon basin headwaters. In recent years luminescence sensitivity has arisen as a potential…
This Master thesis will focus on the acquisition of new thermochronometric ages based on the apatite fission-track and apatite (U-Th)/He systems along one transect across the the Napo Uplift in the Ecuadorian Amazonian Andes. The main goal is to characterize rock exhumation in order to evaluate (1) the spatial and temporal distribution of thrust-induced exhumation along the Subandean thru…
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It has been long recognized that the temperature-dependent accumulation of radiogenic products derived from spontaneous decay of radioactive isotopes in minerals occurs as a continuum at varying rates over certain ranges of temperatures. As a consequence, measured mineral cooling ages result from a protracted and often complex thermal history whose deconvolution demands robust modeling s…
Low-temperature thermochronology comprehends a set of radioisotopic dating techniques widely used in geosciences to understand the timing and rates of processes operating at shallow depths in the Earth, at temperatures lower than ~300°C. Inherent to the relatively low temperature required to disturb and reset thermochronometric radioisotopic systems, these techniques have flourished in a…
Quantifying the spatial and temporal trends of surface uplift in the Andes is critical to understand the drainage evolution of adjacent basins, and in particular to decipher the interplay between major landscape modifications and major biodiversity trends. The La Tatacoa area in the Andes of southern Colombia was a humid tropical region in the middle and upper Miocene but is at present a…
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Reconstructing the topographic evolution of mountains helps to understand the geodynamic processes that shape the Earth's surface. The Napo Uplift (NU) occupies the frontal Andes in northeastern Ecuador and is related to slip along a deep mega-thrust system. Thermochronometry and sedimentary provenance data reveal that exhumation west of the NU, in the Cordillera Real in Ecuador, occurred…
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