Landscape evolution and depositional processes in the Miocene Amazonian Pebas lake/wetland system: Evidence from exploratory boreholes in northeastern Peru

Scripta Geologica

Volumn , Issue 133, 2006, Pages 323-361

  Wesselingh, Frank P ^a,b   Guerrero, J ^c   Rasanen M ^b   Romero Pitmann, L ^d   Vonhof, H ^e  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^d INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO MINERO Y METALÚRGICO   (Peru)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chambira Formation; Mara on basin; Miocene; Pebas Formation; Peru; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EROSION; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL PROCESS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MIOCENE; REGRESSION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUCCESSION; UPLIFT;

AMAZONIA; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTALE;

EID: 33845490409     PISSN: 03757587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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