Ecology and evolution of the African Great Lakes and their faunas

W Salzburger, B Van Bocxlaer… - Annual Review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The Great Lakes of East Africa are collectively the earth's most remarkable and species-rich
freshwater feature. Intrinsic biological factors and extrinsic ecological opportunities allowed …

Lacustrine carbonate reservoirs from Early Cretaceous rift lakes of Western Gondwana: Pre-salt coquinas of Brazil and West Africa

DL Thompson, JD Stilwell, M Hall - Gondwana Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Barremian–Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) Pre-Salt lacustrine carbonates host large
petroleum reservoirs in South Atlantic rift basins, yet remain poorly studied, in part due to the …

East African mid-Holocene wet–dry transition recorded in palaeo-shorelines of Lake Turkana, northern Kenya Rift

Y Garcin, D Melnick, MR Strecker, D Olago… - Earth and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
The 'wet'early to mid-Holocene of tropical Africa, with its enhanced monsoon, ended with an
abrupt shift toward drier conditions and was ultimately replaced by a drier climate that has …

Evolution of an organic‐rich lake basin–stratigraphy, climate and tectonics: Piceance Creek basin, Eocene Green River Formation

K Tänavsuu‐Milkeviciene, J Frederick Sarg - Sedimentology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Piceance Creek basin formed as a continental foreland basin ca 53 to 48 Ma in
the early to middle Eocene. On a global basis, the basin contains one of the richest oil shale …

A taphofacies interpretation of shell concentrations and their relationship with petrophysics: A case study of Barremian-Aptian coquinas in the Itapema Formation …

GF Chinelatto, AMP Belila, M Basso, JPP Souza… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Itapema Formation in the Santos Basin is described as a carbonate coquina
interval, a type of sedimentary rock composed mainly by shells and their fragments. These …

Climate impact on fluvial-lake system evolution, Eocene Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah, USA

LP Birgenheier, MDV Berg… - GSA …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In light of a modern understanding of early Eocene greenhouse climate fluctuations and new
highly seasonal fluvial system faces models, the role of climate in the evolution of one …

Sedimentology and palaeoenvironmental analysis of a karstic shallow carbonate lake (Early‐Middle Miocene, Sinj Basin, Croatia)

A Vranjković, E Gierlowski‐Kordesch… - The Depositional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In the Early to Middle Miocene, the post‐orogenic intramontane lacustrine Sinj
Basin that belonged to the Dinarides Lake System evolved in the area of the External …

Depositional controls in an ancient, closed lake system: A high-resolution and multi-scalar case study from the Yacoraite Formation (Salta Basin, Argentina)

M Vallati, S Tomás, C Galli, G Winterleitner, M Mutti - Sedimentary Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Yacoraite Formation (Cretaceous–Paleogene) is a mixed carbonate–
siliciclastic microbialite-bearing lacustrine succession deposited in the intra-continental …

Depositional model for a salinized lacustrine basin: The permian Lucaogou formation, Jimsar sag, Junggar Basin, NW China

Y Yang, L Qiu, M Wan, X Jia, Y Cao, D Lei… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2019 - Elsevier
Fine-grained sedimentary rocks are well developed in a salinized lacustrine basin in the
Junggar Basin, China. Understanding the sedimentary characteristics and process of these …

Lithofacies, stable isotopic composition, and stratigraphic evolution of microbial and associated carbonates, Green River Formation (Eocene), Piceance Basin …

JF Sarg, Suriamin… - AAPG …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Lacustrine carbonates of the Eocene Green River Formation crop out on the western margin
of the Piceance Basin and the eastern margin of the Uinta Basin, in western Colorado. This …