Marine influence in Amazonia: Evidence from the Geological Record

Amazonia: Landscape and Species Evolution: A look into the past

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 143-161

  Hovikoski, Jussi ^a,b   Wesselingh, Frank P ^c   Räsänen, Matti ^a   Gingras, Murray ^d   Vonhof, Hubert B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Eustasy and geomorphology; Ichnological indications for marine influence; Invertebrate palaeosalinity indicators; Isotope geochemical methods assessing palaeosalinities; Marine influence in Amazonia evidence from geological record; Marine influence in Amazonia in Miocene controversial issues; Marine influence in Miocene western and western central Amazonia; Sedimentological indications of marine influence; Tectonic subsidence of Andean foreland in Middle Late Miocene auto and allocyclically driven shifts in depositional settings; Tidal cycle ideal superimposition in semi diurnal, coastal depositional settings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886112502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306408.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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