Geologists, Industry Eye Caribbean Lure

摘要

The Magdalena River is considered to be one of the great rivers in South America. It originates in the Andes Mountains and travels northward for a distance of 1,000 kilometers, draining an area of 400,000 square kilometers prior to flowing into the Caribbean Sea near Cartagena. The river drops its cargo of mixed volcanic, basement and reworked clastic sediments into the offshore Colombia basin at a water depth exceeding 4,000 meters subsea. The result is a delta and a deepwater fan up to 16 kilometers thick and covering a 180,000-square-kilometerarea, built from Miocene to the present time.