Cenozoic Sedimentary Evolution of the Amazonian Foreland Basin System

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 61-88

  Roddaz, Martin ^a,b,c,d   Hermoza, Wilber ^e,f   Mora, Andres ^g   Baby, Patrice ^a,b,c,d   Parra, Mauricio ^h,i   Christophoul, Frédéric ^a,b,c,d   Brusset, Stéphane ^a,b,c,d   Espurt, Nicolas ^a,b,c,d,j  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^c CNRS IRD   (France)

^d LMTG   (France)

^e PERUPETRO SA   (Peru)

^f REPSOL YPF   (Spain)

^g ECOPETROL S A   (Colombia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^j CEREGE   (France)

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Author keywords

Amazonian foreland basin system; Arajuno Formation fine to coarse grained sandstones with trough cross bedded stratifications; Cenozoic sedimentary evolution of Amazonian foreland basin system; Cenozoic sedimentary evolution of Ecuadorian foreland basin system; Colombian foreland basin system and Cenozoic sedimentary evolution; Maastrichtian units; Orogenic loading and unloading stages and depozones in retro foreland basin; Paleogene Neogene Ecuadorian foreland basin; Quendeque Formation Late Oligocene Miocene in age; Western Amazon drainage basin southern Colombia to northern Bolivia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886220002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306408.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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