Neogene Uplift Of The Chiribiquete Tabletop Mountains In The Colombian Amazon And Its Paleobiogeographic Implications
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.113645 <-- shared paper
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H/T Richard F. Ott
“The Chiribiquete are table top mountains located deep in the Colombian Amazon and host many rare endemic species. Helanlin Xiang's work shows that the Chiribiquete Mountains likely upifted before the Early Miocene and could have acted as a long-lived stepping stone, connecting species in the Andes with the Guyana Shield…”
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#Miocene #Paleogeography #Palynology #Amazonia #Caquetá #paleobiogeography #Columbia #Amazon #jungle #geomorphology #neogene #uplift #geology #structuralgeology #tectonics #Chiribiquete #tabletopmountains #Andes #GuyanaShield #dating #isotopes #biome #ecosystem #tepui #elevation #sedimentology #stratigraphy #Araracuara #fluvial #lacustrine #deposition orogeny #regional #uplift #drainage #hydrography #hydrology #river #network #GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #geophysics #seismology
Nice To Be 'Back In The Data Trenches' Directly
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https://www.usgs.gov/3d-hydrography-program <-- shared U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) #3DHP home page
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I don't get to be here that often (and that is OK, #ILikeMyJob) - but it is nice to be back working directly with some individual spatial datasets - be it in #QGIS, #ArcGISPro, #PostgreSQL / #PostGIS or wherever...
#GIS #spatial #mapping #water #dataquality #water #hydrography #3DHP #NHD #opendata #USA #MI #reservoirs #dams #pluvial #fluvial #usecase #SQL