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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Main Authors: Michael Xavier Kirby, Douglas S Jones, Bruce J MacFadden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2464738?pdf=render