The Origin of the Modern Amazon Rainforest: Implications of the Palynological and Palaeobotanical Record

Amazonia, Landscape and Species Evolution: A Look into the Past

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 317-334

  Jaramillo, Carlos ^a   Hoorn, Carina ^b   Silva, Silane A F ^c   Leite, Fatima ^d   Herrera, Fabiany ^a   Quiroz, Luis ^a,e   Dino, Rodolfo ^f   Antonioli, Luzia ^g  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^f Cidade Universitária Ilha do Fundão   (Brazil)

^g STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cretaceous Amazonian floras; Cretaceous sequences of intracratonic Brazilian basins and terrestrial siliciclastic rocks; Fossil woods from Middle Miocene Pebas Formation of Peruvian Amazonia; Neogene Amazonian fluvial landscape and episodic marine incursion effect; Neogene, changing climate, fluctuating sea levels and tectonic instability; Northern South America highly diversified forest vegetation; Organic rich clays, lignites and siltstone intercalated in fluvial and lacustrine sequences; Origin of modern Amazon rainforest palynological and palaeobotanical record implications; Paleogene northern South America; Urumaco Formation formed by Upper Miocene deltaic deposits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987685582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306408.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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