• The Boconó Fault is a complex of geological faults located in the Eastern Ranges of northeastern Colombia and the Mérida Andes of northwestern Venezuela...
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    strike-slip faults, of which the Oca-Ancón fault system and the Boconó-San Sebastián-El Pilar fault system are the most important. The Boconó Fault trends...
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    clay. Below the city runs the major tectonic fault in the western part of the country, the Boconó fault, which forms part of the South American Plate...
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  • the fault is very similar to faults of the Morronegro-Las Mercedes Fault System. Both faults are believed to be an extension of the Boconó Fault and associated...
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    are three main fault zones associated with the basin: the Santa Marta-Bucaramanga fault zone, the Boconó fault zone, and the Oca fault zone. These strike-slip...
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    margin of the Santa Marta Fault probably commenced in the Pliocene. The Bucaramanga Fault intersects with the Boconó Fault at the Santander Massif. In...
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    Quaternary. the main active structures are the strike-slip faults. the principal one being the Boconó Fault Zone, with a measured dextral displacement of several...
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    Faults. Other less common names include the Pajarito, Colepato, Acacías, and Colonia Faults. The fault system is probably an extension of the Boconó Fault...
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    Aguas Calientes Fault System or faults in the Cucuta graben. The Aguas Calientes Fault System is a northwestern extension of the Boconó Fault. Paleoseismic...
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    plate boundaries consisting of alternations of relatively short transform fault and spreading ridge segments are represented by a boundary following the...
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