Author : Stanley H. Frost
Release : 1966
Genre : Corals, Fossil
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Mexican Tertiary Biostratigraphy and Paleontology by : Stanley H. Frost

Download or read book Mexican Tertiary Biostratigraphy and Paleontology written by Stanley H. Frost. This book was released on 1966. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ixtapa area is situated in central Chiapas, the southermost state of Mexico ... The study area comprises about 360 square kilometers and is approximately 18 km. north-south by 20 km. east-west ... It is bounded on the north by the southwest flank f the Soyalo Anticline, on the northwest by the Soyalo-Chicoasen Anticline ... , on the south by the Pan American Highway and to the east by the high mountain east of Finca Javier Mina ... This report comprise s a detailed description of Late Eocene through Miocene marine sedimentary rocks in the Ixtapa area , a systematic and stratigraphic study of the Oligocene and Early Miocene scleractiniai and a systematic and stratigraphic description of the more abundant larger foraminifera. Older and younger rocks in the area are briefly considered and other fossils are cited but detailed discussion of these is reserved for other reports on the over-all project.