Capítulo de livro Revisado por pares

COLOMBIA

1956; Geological Society of America; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1130/mem65-p293

ISSN

0072-1069

Autores

A. A. Olsson,

Tópico(s)

Business, Innovation, and Economy

Resumo

The Republic of Colombia is situated in the northwest corner of South America, bordering on the Caribbean Sea on the north and on the Pacific Ocean on the west. The western half of the country includes a portion of the Andes where this mountain system becomes divided into several ranges, while the eastern half includes the vast piedmont plains known as the llanos, which stretch monotonously eastward o t the Orinoco, there to merge with the western margins of the Guayana Shield. Thus topography and geology of the republic are varied and in some places of great complexity. Some...

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