2021-03-262019-01-01http://hdl.handle.net/10784/27311The Northern Andean Block is the result of complex tectonic interaction between the Farallon-Nazca, South American, and Caribbean Plates. Abundant late Cenozoic volcanism (and associated hypabyssal porphyritic plutonism), beginning in the mid- to late Miocene, is the result of subduction-related mantle-derived magmatic activity, superimposed upon a compositionally varied and structurally complex basement during the late stages of the Northern Andean orogeny. Tectonic consolidation and subduction of the segmented Nazca Plate during the late Miocene-Pliocene led to conformation of the modern-day Colombian segment of the Northern Andean Volcanic Zone. The Colombian arc segment represents the northernmost expression of subduction-related volcanism within South America’s Andean Cordillera. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.Springer VerlagAndesite formation; Late Cenozoic magmatism; Lower crust; Nazca plate; Northern Andean Volcanic Zone; Slab decarbonation; Subduction component; Subduction zoneLate Cenozoic to modern-day volcanism in the Northern Andes: A geochronological, petrographical, and geochemical reviewinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart2021-03-26