Stratigraphy and sedimentary environments of miocene shallow to marginal marine deposits in the Urumaco Trough, Falcón basin, western Venezuela

Urumaco and Venezuelan Paleontology: The Fossil Record of the Northern Neotropics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 153-172

  Quiroz, Luis I ^a,b   Jaramillo, Carlos A ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

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