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The oldest rocks in Venezuela formed during the Precambrian and occupy the Guiana shield in the southern tier of the country near Guyana and Brazil, east of the El BaUl swell. In the western Guiana Shield, within the Amazonas Territory, Precambrian Roraima Formation zircon grains have been dated with uranium-lead dating and rubidium-strontium ...
Pages in category "Geology of Venezuela" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Venezuelan Andes (Spanish: Andes Venezolanos) also simply known as the Andes (Spanish: Los Andes) in Venezuela, are a mountain system that form the northernmost extension of the Andes. They are fully identified, both by their geological origin as by the components of the relief, the constituent rocks and the geological structure.
The Eastern Venezuela Basin is major sedimentary basin in northeastern Venezuela that ... Classifications and Characteristics", Journal of Petroleum Geology, 3 (2): ...
Geologia de Venezuela y de sus cuencas petroliferas. 1:162-166; E. von der Osten. 1957. A fauna from the lower Cretaceous Barranquin Formation of Venezuela. Journal of Paleontology 31(3):571-590; O. Renz. 1982. The Cretaceous ammonites of Venezuela 1-132; J. W. Wells. 1944. Cretaceous, tertiary, and recent corals, a sponge, and an alga from ...
The Cariaco Basin is an east-west trending pull-apart basin [1] located on the continental shelf off the eastern coast of Venezuela.It is a deep depression composed of two sub-basins, the eastern basin and the western basin, each of about 1,400 metres (4,600 ft) depth, separated by a saddle of approximately 900 metres (3,000 ft) water-depth.
Geology portal; Venezuela portal; This category contains articles related to geologic formations of Venezuela. Subcategories. This category has the following 12 ...
The coastal plain contains Venezuela's only desert, the Médanos de Coro (the Coro Dunes), on the Paraguaná Peninsula. The Coro region is one of the ten geographical regions into which Venezuela can be divided. Because the two major depression valleys are the Falcón and the Lara, the mountains are sometimes called the Falcón-Lara ranges.