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  1. Ayala-Usma, D. A., Lozano-Gutierrez, R., Orejuela, C., Perez-Angel, L. C., Montes, C., Gonzalez-Arango, C., Exceptionally preserved subfossil woods from late Pleistocene volcanic deposits from the Northern Andes of Colombia, 2024, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2024.105090. Q1

  2. Villares, F., Blanco-Quintero, I.F., Reyes, P.S., Montes, C., Fuentes, D., Cardona, A., and Garcia-Casco, A., 2023, Ocean floor and Barrovian metamorphic events in the Mesozoic Peltetec ophiolitic belt (Ecuador), International Geology Review, DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2023.2230639. Q1

  3. Ortiz-Guerrero, C., Montes, C., Farris, D. W., Agudelo, C., Ariza-Acero, M., Ayala, J., Avellaneda, J. D., Cortes-Calderon, A.,  Gaitan, E., Garzon, S., Gongora-Blanco, D., Jara, N. A., Meza-Cala, J. C., Perez-Angel, L., Pineda-Rodríguez, N., Rodriguez-Parra, L. A., Revelo-Obando, B., Rubiano, C., Stiles, E., Urdaneta, M. P., Zuluaga, N., Lamus, F., Moreno, F., & Rincon, A. 2023, Crustal structure of the Western Azuero Peninsula, Panama: Insights into the structure of accretionary complexes and forearc ophiolites, International Geology Review, DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2023.2191678. Q1

  4. Delgado, J.J., López, J., Zárate, I., Montes, C., 2023, Modeling subduction on the kitchen table, Journal of Structural Geology, 166, DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2022.104772. Q1

  5. Pérez-Angel, L. C., Sepúlveda, J., Montes, C., Smith, J. J., Molnar, P., González-Arango, C., et al., 2022, Mixed signals from the stable isotope composition of precipitation and plant waxes in the northern tropical Andes: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127, e2022JG006932. DOI: 10.1029/2022JG006932. Q1

  6. Rodríguez-Corcho, A.F.., Polanco, S., Farrington, R., Beucher, R., Moresi, L., Montes, C., 2022, The role of lithospheric‐deep mantle interactions on the style and stress evolution of arc‐continent collision: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, DOI: 10.1029/2022GC010386. Q1

  7. Rodriguez-Muñoz, E., Montes C., Rojas-Runjaic F., Crawford A.J., 2022, Synthesis of geological data and comparative phylogeography of lowland tetrapods suggests recent dispersal through lowland portals crossing the Eastern Andean Cordillera: PeerJ, DOI: 10:e13186 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13186. Q2

  8. Stiles, E., Montes, C., Jaramillo, C., and Gingras, M.K., 2022, A shallow-water depositional interpretation for the upper Miocene Chagres Formation (Caribbean coast of Panama): GSA Bulletin, DOI: 10.1130/B36291.1. Q1

  9. Rodriguez-Corcho, A.F., Rojas-Agramonte, Y. Barrera-Gonzalez, J. A., Marroquin-Gomez, M. P., Bonilla-Correa, S., Izquierdo-Camacho, D., Delgado-Balaguera, S. M., Cartwright-Buitrago, D., Muñoz-Granados, M. D., Carantón-Mateus, W. G., Corrales-García, A., Laverde-Martinez, A. F., Cuervo-Gómez, A., Rodriguez-Ruiz, M. A., Marin-Jaramillo, J. P., Salazar-Cuellar, N. Esquivel-Arenales, L. C., Daroca, M. E., Carvajal, A. S., Perea-Pescador, A. M., Solano-Acosta, J. D., Diaz, S., Guillen, A., Bayona, G. A., Cardona-Molina, A., Eglington, B., & Montes, C., 2021. The Colombian geochronological database (CGD)​: International Geology Review, DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2021.1954556. Q1

  10. Montes,  C. Silva, C. A., Bayona, G. A., Villamil, R., Stiles, E., Beltran-Triviño, A., Lamus, F., Muñoz-Granados, M. D., Perez-Angel, L. C., Hoyos, N., Gomez S., Galeano, J. J., Romero, E., Baquero, M., Cardenas-Rozo, A. L., Von Quadt, 2021. A Middle to Late Miocene Trans-Andean Portal: Geologic Record in the Tatacoa Desert: Frontiers in Earth Science, DOI: 10.3389/feart.2020.587022. Q1. Presentation in Spanish here.

  11. Villares, F., Garcia-Casco, A., Blanco-Quintero, I. F., Montes, C., Reyes, P. S., Cardona, A., 2020. The Peltetec ophiolitic belt (Ecuador): a window to the tectonic evolution of the Triassic margin of western Gondwana: International Geology Review, DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2020.1830313. Q1 

  12. Pérez‐Angel, L. C. , Sepúlveda, J.,  Molnar, P., Montes, C., Rajagopalan, B., Snell, K., Gonzalez‐Arango, C., Dildar, N. 2020. Soil and air temperature calibrations using branched GDGTs for the Tropical Andes of Colombia: Towards a pan‐tropical calibration: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, DOI: 10.1029/2020GC008941. Q1

  13. Bayona, G., Baquero M., Ramírez, C., Tabares, M., Salazar, A. M.,  Nova, G.,  Duarte, E.,  Pardo, A., Plata, A., Jaramillo, C.,  Rodríguez, G.,  Caballero, V., Cardona, A., Montes, C., Gómez, S., Cárdenas‐Rozo, A. 2020, Unraveling the widening of the earliest Andean northern orogen: Maastrichtian to early Eocene intra-basinal deformation in the northern Eastern Cordillera of Colombia: Basin Research, DOI: 10.1111/bre.12496. Q1

  14. Montes, C. & Hoyos, N. 2020. Isthmian bedrock geology: Tilted, bent, and broken. In: Gómez, J. & Mateus–Zabala, D. (editors), The Geology of Colombia, Volume 3 Paleogene – Neogene. Servicio Geológico Colombiano, Publicaciones Geológicas Especiales 37, 17 p. Bogotá. DOI: 10.32685/pub.esp.37.2019.15​. Book chapter.

  15. Whattam, S., Montes, C., Stern, R., 2020, Early Central American forearc follows the subduction initiation rule: Gondwana Research, v 79, 283-300, DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2019.10.002. Q1

  16. Montes, C., Rodriguez-Corcho, A. F., Bayona, G., Hoyos, N., Zapata, S., Cardona, A., 2019, Continental margin response to multiple arc-continent collisions: The northern Andes-Caribbean margin: Earth Science Reviews, v. 198., DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102903 (the missing movies in .avi, .mov, and pdf format). Presentation in Spanish here. Q1

  17. Montes, C., Rodriguez-Corcho, A. F., Bayona, G., Hoyos, N., Zapata, S, Cardona, A., 2019, GPlates Dataset for the Tectonic Reconstruction of the Northern Andes-Caribbean Margin: Data in Brief, DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104398. Q1
  18. ​Velásquez, F., Cardona, A., & Montes, C., 2019, Caracterización de minerales pesados en sedimentos activos de la cuenca del río Magdalena, Colombia: implicaciones para el análisis de procedencia en el registro fluvial. Boletín de Geología, 41(2), 137-147. DOI: 10.18273/revbol.v41n2-2019008. Q2
  19. Montes, C., 2018, La incertidumbre climática y el dilema energético colombiano: Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales, vol 42(165).DOI: 10.18257/raccefyn.664.

  20. Cardona, A., León, S., Jaramillo, J. S., Montes, C., Valencia, V., Vanegas, J., Bustamante, C., & Echeverri, S., 2018, The Paleogene arcs of the northern Andes of Colombia and Panama: Insights on plate kinematic implications from new and existing geochemical, geochronological and isotopic data: Tectonophysics, vol 749, 88-103. doi: DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.10.032. Q1

  21. Nova, G., Chaparro, G. A. B., Silva-Tamayo, J. C., Cardona, A., Rapalini, A., Cortes, P. C. M., ... & Montes, C. (2019). Jurassic break-up of the Peri-Gondwanan margin in northern Colombia: Basin formation and implications for terrane transfer: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, vol 89, 92-117. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2018.11.014. Q1

  22. Leon, S., A. Cardona, M. Parra, J. S. Jaramillo, V. Valencia, D. Chew, E. R. Sobel, C. Montes, A. Pardo-Trujillo, G. Posada and S. Echeverri, 2018, Transition from collision to subduction: an example from Panama-Nazca Neogene interactions: Tectonics v. 36.DOI: 10.1002/2017TC004785. Q1

  23. Pérez-Consuegra, N., Góngora, D.E., Herrera, F., Jaramillo, C., Montes, C., Cuervo-Gómez, A. M., Hendy, A., Machado, A., Cárdenas, D., Bayona, G., 2018, New records of Humiriaceae fossil fruits from the Oligocene and Early Miocene of the western Azuero Peninsula, Panamá: Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, v 70, n.1, pp 223-239. DOI: 10.18268/BSGM2018v70n1a13. Q3

  24. Richardson, J. E., Madriñán, S., Gómez-Gutiérrez, M. C., Valderrama, E., Luna, J., Banda-R, K., Serrano, J., Torres, M. F., Jara, O. A., Aldana, A. M., Cortés-B, R., Sánchez, D., and Montes, C., 2018, Using dated molecular phylogenies to help reconstruct geological, climatic, and biological history: Examples from Colombia: Geological Journal, v. 1, no. 9. DOI: 10.1002/gj.3133. Q1

  25. Pérez-Consuegra, N., M. Parra, C. Jaramillo, D. Silvestro, S. Echeverri, C. Montes, J. M. Jaramillo and J. Escobar, 2018, Provenance analysis of the Pliocene Ware Formation in the Guajira Peninsula, northern Colombia: Paleodrainage implications: Journal of South American Earth Sciences v. 81(Supplement C): pp. 66-77. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2017.11.002. Q1

  26. Montes, C. and Bayona, G., 2017, Geografía, cómo interpretar la geografía de Colombia en el tiempo geológico, En: Jaramillo, C., y Oviedo, L.H., (Eds.). 2017. Hace Tiempo. Un viaje paleontológico por Colombia. Instituto Alexander von Humboldt e Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales. Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. 124 pp. Book chapter.

  27. Jaramillo, C., Montes, C., Cardona, A., Silvestro, D., Antonelli, A., Bacon, C., 2017, Conclusions by O’Dea et al. regarding the formation of the Isthmus of Panama are not supported: Science Advances, v. 3, issue 7., e1602321.DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602321. Q1

  28. Perez-Consuegra, N., Cuervo-Gomez, A., Martinez, C., Montes, C., Herrera, F., Madriñan, S., and Jaramillo, C., 2017, Paleogene Salvinia (Salviniaceae) from Colombia and their paleobiogeographic implications: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 246, no. Supplement C, p. 85-108. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.06.003. Q1

  29. Farris, D. W., Cardona, A., Montes, C., Foster, D., & Jaramillo, C. (2017). Magmatic evolution of Panama Canal volcanic rocks: A record of arc processes and tectonic change. PloS one, v. 12, n. 5, e0176010.DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176010. Q1

  30. Rodriguez-Parra, L. A., Gaitan, C., Montes, C., Bayona, G., Rapalini, A. (2017). Arc-seamount collision: driver for vertical-axis rotations in Azuero, Panama. Stud. Geophys. Geod., vol. 61. DOI: 10.1007/s11200-016-1173-1. Q3

  31. Ramírez, D. A., Foster, D. A., Min, K., Montes, C., Cardona, A., & Sadove, G. (2016). Exhumation of the Panama basement complex and basins: Implications for the closure of the Central American seaway. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. DOI: 10.1002/2016GC006289. Q1

  32. Cardozo, N., Montes, C., Marín, D., Gutierrez, I., & Palencia, A. (2016). Structural analysis of the Tabaco anticline, Cerrejón open-cast coal mine, Colombia, South America: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 87, pp. 115-133. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2016.04.010. Q1

  33. Bloch, J. I., Woodruff, E. D., Wood, A. R., Rincon, A. F., Harrington, A. R., Morgan, G. S., Foster, D. A., Montes, C., Jaramillo, C. A., Jud, N. A., Jones, D. S., and MacFadden, B. J. 2016. First North American Fossil Monkey and Early Miocene Tropical Biotic Interchange. Nature. 10.1038/nature17415. Q1. Link to Connected Papers here.

  34. Bacon, C.D., Molnar P., Antonelli, A., Crawford, A.J., Montes, C., Vallejo-Pareja, M.C., 2016, Quaternary glaciation and the Great American Biotic Interchange, Geology, DOI: 10.1130/G37624.1 Q1

  35. Moreno, F., Hendy, A., Quiroz, L., Hoyos, N., Jones, D., Zapata, V., Zapata, S., Ballen, G., Cadena, E., Cárdenas, A., Carrillo, J. D., Delgado, D., Escobar, J., Martinez, J. I., Montes, C., Moreno, J., Perez, N., Sanchez, R., Suarez, C., Vallejo, M. C., and Jaramillo, C. A., 2015, Revised stratigraphy of Neogene strata in the Cocinetas basin, La Guajira, Colombia: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, p. 1-39. DOI: 10.1007/s13358-015-0071-4. Q1

  36. Montes, C. Cardona, A., Jaramillo, C. Pardo, A. Silva, J., Valencia, V., Ayala, C, Pérez-Angel, L.C., Rodriguez-Parra, L.A., Ramirez, V., Niño, H., 2015, Middle Miocene closure of the Central American Seaway, Science, v. 348, pp. 226-229. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa2815. Q1. Link to Connected Papers here.

  37. Hoyos, N., Monsalve, G., Berger, G. W., Atinao, J.L., Giraldo, H., Silva, C., Bayona, G., Escobar, J., Montes, C., 2015, A climatic trigger for catastrophic Pleistocene–Holocene debris flows in the Eastern Andean Cordillera of Colombia; Journal of Quaternary Science, vol. 30, pp. 258-270. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2779. Q1

  38. Cardona, A., Weber, M., Valencia, V., Bustamante, C., Montes, C., Cordani, U., & Muñoz, C. M. (2014). Geochronology and geochemistry of the Parashi granitoid, NE Colombia: Tectonic implication of short-lived Early Eocene plutonism along the SE Caribbean margin. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 50, 75-92. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2013.12.006. Q1

  39. Sepulchre, P., T. Arsouze, Y. Donnadieu, J. C. Dutay, C. Jaramillo, J. Le Bras, E. Martin, C. Montes, and A. J. Waite, 2014, Consequences of shoaling of the Central American Seaway determined from modeling Nd isotopes, Paleoceanography, vol. 29, DOI: 10.1002/2013PA002501. Q1

  40. Zapata, S., Cardona, A., Montes, C., Valencia, V., 2014, Provenance of the Eocene Soebi Blanco formation, Bonaire, Leeward Antilles: Correlations with post-Eocene tectonic evolution of northern South America. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 52; 179-193. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2014.02.009. Q2

  41. Moron, S., D. Fox, J. Feinberg, C. Jaramillo, G. Bayona, C. Montes, and J. Bloch, 2013, Climate change during the Early Paleogene in the Bogotá Basin (Colombia) inferred from paleosol carbon isotope stratigraphy, major oxides, and environmental magnetism, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 388, 115-127. doi: DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.08.010. Q1

  42. Lara, M., A. Cardona, G. Monsalve, J. Yarce, C. Montes, V. Valencia, M. Weber, F. De la Parra, D. Espitia, M. Lopez-Martínez, 2013, Middle Miocene near trench volcanism in northern Colombia: A record of slab tearing due to the simultaneous subduction of the Caribbean Plate under South and Central America?, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 45, pp. 24-4. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2012.12.006. Q1

  43. Bayona, G., A. Cardona, C. Jaramillo, A. Mora, C. Montes, V. Caballero, H. Mahecha, F. Lamus, O. Montenegro, G. Jimenez, A. Mesa, and V. Valencia 2013, Onset of fault reactivation in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia and proximal Llanos Basin; response to Caribbean–South American convergence in early Palaeogene time, Special Publications, Geological Society of London, DOI: 10.1144/SP377.5

  44. Head, J., Rincon, A., Suarez, S.C., Montes, C., Jaramillo, C., 2012, Fossil evidence for earliest Neogene American faunal interchange: Boa (Serpentes, Boinae) from the early Miocene of Panama, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v 32(6), pp. 1328-1334. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2012.694387. Q1

  45. Jimenez, G., J. Rico, G. Bayona, C. Montes, A. Rosero, and D. Sierra, 2012, Analysis of curved folds and fault/fold terminations in the Upper Magdalena Valley of Colombia, Journal of South American Earth Sciences. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2012.04.006. Q1

  46. Bayona, G., A. Cardona, C. Jaramillo, A. Mora, C. Montes, V. Valencia, C. Ayala, O. Montenegro, and M. Ibañez-Mejia 2012, Early Paleogene magmatism in the northern Andes: Insights on the effects of oceanic plateau-continent convergence, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 331-332, 97-111. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.03.015. Q1

  47. Cardona, A., Montes, C., Ayala, C., Bustamante, C., Hoyos, N., Montenegro, O., Ojeda, C., Niño, H., Ramirez, V., Valencia, V., Rincón, D., Vervoort, J., Zapata, S., 2012, From arc-continent collision to continuous convergence, clues from Paleogene conglomerates along the southern Caribbean-South America plate boundary, Tectonophysics, v. 580, pp. 58 - 87. DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.08.039. Q1

  48. Ayala, R.C., Bayona, G., Cardona, A., Ojeda, C., Montenegro, C., Montes, C., Valencia, V., Jaramillo, C., The Paleogene synorogenic succession in the northwestern Maracaibo block: Tracking intraplate uplifts and changes in sediment delivery systems, 2012, Journal of South American Earth Sciences. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2012.04.005. Q1 

  49. Montes, C., Bayona, G., Cardona, A., Buchs D., Silva, C., Morón, S., Hoyos, N., Ramírez, D. Jaramillo, C., Valencia, V., 2012, Arc-Continent Collision and Orocline Formation: Closing of the Central American Seaway, Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth. DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008959. Q1

  50. Whattam, S., Montes, C., McFadden, R., Cardona, A., Ramirez, D., Valencia, V. 2012, Age and origin of earliest adakitic-like magmatism in Panama: implications for the tectonic evolution of the Panamanian magmatic arc system, Lithos. v. 142-143, pp 226-244, DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2012.02.017. Q1

  51. Montes, C., Cardona, A., McFadden, R. R., Moron, S. E., Silva, C. A., Restrepo-Moreno, S. A., Ramirez, D. A., Hoyos, N., Wilson, J., Farris, D., Bayona, G. A., Jaramillo, C. A., Valencia, V., Bryan, J., and Flores, J. A., 2012, Evidence for middle Eocene and younger land emergence in Central Panama: implications for Isthmus closure: Geological Society of America Bulletin. DOI: 10.1130/B30528.1. Q1

  52. Farris, D. W., Jaramillo, C. A., Bayona, G. A., Restrepo-Moreno, S. A., Montes, C., Cardona, A., Mora, A., Speakman, R. J., Glasscock, M. D., Reiners, P., and Valencia, V., 2011 Fracturing of the Panamanian Isthmus during initial collision with South America: Geology. v. 39, n. 11, p. 1007-1010, DOI: 10.1130/G32237.1. Q1

  53. Bayona, G., Montes, C., Cardona, A., Jaramillo, C., Ojeda, G., Valencia, V., 2011, Intraplate response to oceanic arc-continental collision; the Ranchería basin at the southern Caribbean-South America plate margin: Basin Research,DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00495.x. Q1

  54. Cardona, A., V. Valencia, A. Garzón, C. Montes, G. Ojeda, J. Ruiz, and M. Weber, 2010, Permian to Triassic I to S-type magmatic switch in the northeast Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and adjacent regions, Colombian Caribbean: Tectonic setting and implications within Pangea paleogeography, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 29, 772-783. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2009.12.005. Q1 

  55. Cardona, A., Valencia, V. A., Bayona, G., Duque, J., Ducea, M., Gehrels George, E., Jaramillo, C., Montes, C., Ojeda, G., and Ruiz, J., 2010, 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: Terra Nova, v. 23, no. 1, p. 26-34. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2010.00979.x. Q1

  56. Montes, C., Guzmán, G., Bayona, G., Cardona, A., Valencia, V., 2010, Clockwise Rotation of the Santa Marta Massif and Simultaneous Neogene Deformation of the Plato-San Jorge and Cesar-Ranchería Basins: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 29, pp. 832-848. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2009.07.010. Q1. The missing data tables here. Link to Connected Papers here.

  57. Bayona, G. A., G. Jiménez, C. A. Silva, A. Cardona, C. Montes, J. H. Roncancio, and U. G. Cordani, 2010, Paleomagnetic data and K-Ar ages from Mesozoic units of the Santa Marta massif: A preliminary interpretation for block rotation and translations, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 29, 817-831. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2009.10.005. Q1

  58. MacFadden, B., Kirby, M., Rincon, A., Montes, C., Morón, S., Strong, N., Jaramillo, C., 2010, Extinct peccary “Cynorca” occidentale (Tayassuidae, Tayassuinae) from the Miocene of Panama and Correlations to North America: Journal of Paleontology, v. 84, pp. 288-298. DOI: 10.1666/09-064R.1. Q1

  59. Uhen, M. D., Coates, A. G., Jaramillo, C. A., Montes, C., Pimiento, C., Rincon, A., Strong, N., and Velez-Juarbe, J., 2010, Marine mammals from the Miocene of Panama: Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 30, no. 3, p. 167-175. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2010.08.002. Q1

  60. Jaramillo, C., Ochoa, D., Contreras, L., Pagani, M., Carvajal-Ortiz, H., Pratt Lisa, M., Krishnan, S., Cardona, A., Romero, M., Quiroz, L., Rodriguez, G., Rueda Milton, J., de la Parra, F., Moron, S., Green, W., Bayona, G., Montes, C., Quintero, O., Ramirez, R., Mora, G., Schouten, S., Bermudez, H., Navarrete, R., Parra, F., Alvaran, M., Osorno, J., Crowley James, L., Valencia, V., and Vervoort Jeffrey, D., 2010, Effects of rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary on neotropical vegetation: Science, v. 330, p. 957-961. DOI: 10.1126/science.1193833. Q1

  61. Quintero, J. A., Candela, S. A., Rios, C. A., Montes, C., and Uribe, C., 2009, Spontaneous combustion of the Upper Paleocene Cerrejón Formation coal and generation of clinker in La Guajira Peninsula (Caribbean Region of Colombia): International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 80, p. 196-210. DOI: 10.1016/j.coal.2009.09.004. Q1

  62. Montes, C., Hatcher, R. D., Jr, Restrepo-Pace, P. A., 2005, Tectonic reconstruction of the northern Andean blocks: oblique convergence and rotations derived from the kinematics of the Piedras-Girardot area, Colombia: Tectonophysics, v. 399, pp. 221-250. DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.12.024. Q1. Link to Connected Papers here.

  63. Montes, C., Restrepo-Pace, P. A., Hatcher R. D. Jr., 2003; Three-dimensional structure and kinematics of the Piedras-Girardot foldbelt: Surface expression of transpressional deformation in the northern Andes; in Bartolini,C., Buffler, R., Blickwede, eds: The circum-Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean: Hydrocarbon habitats, basin formation and plate tectonics: American Association of Petroleoum Geologists Memoir 79, p. 849-873. Book Chapter

  64. Montes, C., Hatcher R. D. Jr., 1999, Documenting Late Proterozoic rifting in the Ocoee Basin, Blue Ridge of western North Carolina: Southeastern Geology, v. 39, No 1, p. 37-50. Q3

  65. Amezquita F., Montes C., 1994, Seccion Geológica El Maco-Buenavista: Estructura en el sector occidental del Valle Superior del Magdalena; in Etayo-Serna, F., ed.: Estudios Geológicos del Valle Superior del Magdalena, Publicaciones Especiales de Ecopetrol; Capitulo VI, paginas VI-1 VI-36. Book chapter.

  66. Montes, C., Análisis microestructuras detallado de la sección Cajamarca-Anaime: Facies, v.2, p. 4-17.

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