Basin physiography and tectonic influence on sequence architecture and stacking pattern: Pleistocene succession of the Canoa Basin (central Ecuador)

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 9-10, 2005, Pages 1226-1241

  Di Celma, Claudio ^a   Ragaini, Luca ^b   Cantalamessa, Gino ^a   Landini, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Canoa Formation; Falling stage sequence set; Hiatal shell beds; Paleoecology; Pleistocene; Tablazo Formation; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

BASIN PHYSIOGRAPHY; FALLING-STAGE SEQUENCE SET; HIATAL SHELL BEDS; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOGEOGRAPHIC SETTING; PLEISTOCENE; TAPHONOMY; TECTONIC INFLUENCE;

DEPOSITS; ECOLOGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

PLEISTOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHALLOW WATER; TRANSGRESSION;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24644449713     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25684.1     Document Type: Article

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