Miocene flooding events of western Amazonia

C Jaramillo, I Romero, C D'Apolito, G Bayona… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
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 …

Sequence stratigraphy: Guidelines for a standard methodology

O Catuneanu - Stratigraphy & timescales, 2017 - Elsevier
The interplay of local and global controls on accommodation and sedimentation generates
basin-specific sequence stratigraphic frameworks that record cyclicity at multiple scales …

High-Frequency Sequences in the Quaternary of Pelotas Basin (coastal plain): a record of degradational stacking as a function of longer-term base-level fall

MLCC Rosa, EG Barboza, VS Abreu… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
The aim of this work was to analyze the sedimentary record of the coastal plain of Pelotas
Basin, placing it in the context of temporal and spatial scales, and proposing a stratigraphic …

A review of the stratigraphy of Rome (Italy) according to geochronologically and paleomagnetically constrained aggradational successions, glacio-eustatic forcing and …

GM Luberti, F Marra, F Florindo - Quaternary International, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper we provide a critical review of the studies conducted on the geology of Rome
since the first half of the 20th century, aimed at presenting an updated state of the art on the …

The complex prograded Cassino barrier in southern Brazil: Geological and morphological evolution and records of climatic, oceanographic and sea-level changes in …

SR Dillenburg, EG Barboza, MLCC Rosa, F Caron… - Marine Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents the geological and morphological evolution of the prograded Cassino
barrier during the middle and late Holocene. A special focus is given on the presentation …

The Wheeler diagram, flattening theory, and time

F Qayyum, C Betzler, O Catuneanu - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
Wheeler diagrams are excellent tools to represent time stratigraphy. These diagrams are
produced by considering interpreted surfaces as snapshots of geologic times linked with …

Depositional environment, sequence stratigraphy and sedimentary mineralization mechanism in the coal bed-and oil shale-bearing succession: A case from the …

D Lv, D Wang, Z Li, H Liu, Y Li - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2017 - Elsevier
It has been a long dispute in the forming mechanism of coal and oil shale in coal-and oil
shale-bearing succession because the depositional environments between coal and oil …

Linking Late Cretaceous to Eocene tectonostratigraphy of the San Jacinto fold belt of NW Colombia with Caribbean plateau collision and flat subduction

JA Mora, O Oncken, E Le Breton, M IbánezMejia… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Collision with and subduction of an oceanic plateau is a rare and transient process that
usually leaves an indirect imprint only. Through a tectonostratigraphic analysis of pre …

Sequence stratigraphy and late Quaternary paleoenvironmental evolution of the Northern Adriatic coastal plain (Italy)

B Campo, A Amorosi, SC Vaiani - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2017 - Elsevier
Integrated sedimentological and micropaleontological data were used for the construction of
a 93 km-long stratigraphic cross-section parallel to the modern Adriatic shoreline (northern …

Multiscale constraints of sediment source to sink systems in frontier basins: a forward stratigraphic modelling case study of the Levant region

N Hawie, R Deschamps, D Granjeon, FH Nader… - Basin …, 2017 - earthdoc.org
Recent scientific work has highlighted the presence of an up to 12 km thick Cenozoic
siliclastic and carbonate infill in the Levant Basin. Since the Late Eocene, several regional …