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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 ...
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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.
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 Maracaibo Basin, also known as Lake Maracaibo natural region, Lake Maracaibo depression or Lake Maracaibo Lowlands, is a foreland basin and one of the eight natural regions of Venezuela, found in the northwestern corner of Venezuela in South America. Covering over 36,657 square km, it is a hydrocarbon-rich region that has produced over 30 ...
The heavy rain that can be found throughout Venezuela has a large impact on the geology. Erosion is a common trend in Venezuela especially due to the extreme wet seasons. [33] The geology of this mountain range especially in Venezuela has barely been studied even by oil companies. [29]
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The Eastern Venezuela Basin is major sedimentary basin in northeastern Venezuela that ... Classifications and Characteristics", Journal of Petroleum Geology, 3 (2): ...