LAGO AMAZONAS: FACT OR FANCY?
It has been suggested that a huge lake, Lago Amazonas, covered a large part of the Amazon basin until as recently as two thousand years ago. According to this hypothesis, the topmost sediments in western Amazonia are almost universally young deposite of lacustrine and deltaic origin. The hypothesis...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
1992-09-01
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| Series: | Acta Amazonica |
| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0044-59671992000300353&tlng=en |