Miocene flooding events of western Amazonia

Jaramillo, Carlos; Romero, Ingrid; D’Apolito, Carlos; Bayona, Germán; Duarte, Edward; Louwye, Stephen; Escobar, Jaime; Luque, Javier; D. Carrillo-Briceño, Jorge; Zapata, Vladimir; Mora, A.; Schouten, Stefan; S. Zavada, Michael; J. Harrington, Guy; Ortiz, John; P. Wesselingh, Frank

doi:10.1126/sciadv.1601693

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Miocene flooding events of western Amazonia

Published in Science Advances • May 4, 2017

Authors:

Carlos Jaramillo

Ingrid Romero

Carlos D’Apolito

Abstract

There is a considerable controversy about whether western Amazonia was ever covered by marine waters during the Miocene [23 to 5 Ma (million years ago)]. We investigated the possible occurrence of Miocene marine incursions in the Llanos and Amazonas/Solimões basins, using sedimentological and palyno...

Subject

Amazon rainforest

Flooding (psychology)

Geology

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