Open AccessLate Miocene onset of the Amazon River and the Amazon deep-sea fan: Evidence from the Foz do Amazonas Basin: COMMENT
Author(s) -
Kenneth E. Campbell
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
geology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.609
H-Index - 215
eISSN - 1943-2682
pISSN - 0091-7613
DOI - 10.1130/g30633c.1
Subject(s) - amazon rainforest , geology , amazon basin , structural basin , oceanography , paleontology , ecology , biology
[Figueiredo et al. (2009)][1] analyzed sediments from two cores taken northeast of the mouth of the Amazon River and concluded that the Amazon River formed through a three-stage sequence beginning at 11.8–11.3 Ma. This hypothesis conflicts, in part or wholly, with virtually every other recent
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