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Las capas fosfáticas de la cordillera Oriental
Después de analizar brevemente las investigaciones sobre capas fosfáticas, efectuadas en los años de 1944 a 1952 por los geólogos del Servicio Geológico Nacional, se describe el contenido fosfático de diversas capas del Devoniano, Carboniano, Girón y ...
Hans Bürgl, Darío Botero G.
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A new Bolitoglossa (Amphibia, Caudata, Plethodontidae) from the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia. [PDF]
A new salamander species of the genus Bolitoglossa is here described from the cloud forests of the western slopes of the Cordillera Oriental of Colombia, in the Cundinamarca department. The most salient characters of this new species are its numerous maxillary and vomerine teeth, its moderate webbing on hands and feet, its short and robust tail, and ...
López-Perilla YR +3 more
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Glossolomamagenticristatum (Gesneriaceae), a new species from the Cordillera Oriental of the Colombian Andes. [PDF]
A narrowly endemic new species ofGlossolomais described from the Cordillera Oriental of the northern Andes, in the Colombian departments of Caquetá and Huila.Glossoloma magenticristatumJ.L.Clark, D.Hoyos & Clavijo,sp. nov.differs from most other congeners by a habit that is usually epiphytic with elongate scandent subwoody shoots, the presence of a
Hoyos D, Clavijo L, Clark JL.
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Holocene Fires and Ecological Novelty in the High Colombian Cordillera Oriental
Rapid climate changes and the increasing presence of humans define the Holocene Epoch (11.6 calibrated kiloyears before present – hereafter kyr BP), when biological systems have faced the most recent and abrupt environmental changes. Understanding how biodiversity responds to extrinsic factors requires determining the effects of varying climatic ...
Ismael G. Espinoza +7 more
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Geomorphic evolution of the Dominican Cordillera Oriental
Cordillera Oriental is the only one mountain system in the Hispaniola eastern sector, acquiring his appereance during Quaternary times. At Pliocene times, region was conformed by small islands in a reef platform of which derived the Llanura Costera del Caribe and Los Haitises.
J.A. Díaz De Neira +2 more
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The structure of the Oriental Cordillera of Dominican Republic
The Oriental Cordillera of Dominican Republic is a mildly deformed area next to the north-eastern Caribbean plate boundary. Recent geological mapping of the cordillera reject the older ‘terrane’ subdivision, showing instead a coherent antiformal structure cored by Early Cretaceous island-arc rocks and covered by Late Cretaceous layered fore-arc ...
J. García-Senz +5 more
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Apuntes sobre la alimentación de la población prehispánica de la Cordillera Oriental de Colombia
Desde sus orígenes, la afanosa búsqueda de alimentos, agua, techo y calor ha representado gran parte del quehacer del hombre, que orientó sus esfuerzos, diseñó estrategias e instrumentos; desarrolló relaciones sociales y adaptaciones ecológicas ...
José Vicente Rodríguez Cuenca
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El ratón de montaña (Thomasomys niveipes) es un roedor neotropical endémico de Colombia y exclusivo de la Cordillera Oriental, el cual presenta una dieta generalista que incluye insectos, hojas y hongos.
María Fernanda Cadena Benavides +2 more
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Abstract The Cretaceous–Eocene island arc of Hispaniola is currently shortened between the Bahamas carbonate platform to the north and the thickened crust of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province (CLIP) to the south. Within this transpressional setting, the 15–22‐km‐thick, ∼100‐km‐wide Beata Ridge (BR), the thickest portion of the CLIP, acts as a ...
J. M. Gorosabel‐Araus +3 more
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El puercoespín pardo, Coendou vestitus, se encuentra entre los roedores endémicos más amenazados de Colombia, con presencia corroborada en pocas localidades de la cordillera Oriental, en los departamentos de Boyacá y Cundinamarca.
Javier E. Cortés-Suárez +6 more
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