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Lower Miocene Stratigraphy along the Panama Canal and Its Bearing on the Central American Peninsula

Before the formation of the Central American Isthmus, there was a Central American Peninsula. Here we show that southern Central America existed as a peninsula as early as 19 Ma, based on new lithostratigraphic, biostratigraphic and strontium chemostratigraphic analyses of the formations exposed alo...

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Autores principales: Kirby, Michael Xavier, Jones, Douglas S., MacFadden, Bruce J.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2464738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18665219
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002791