Stratigraphy and Fauna of the Agua Salada Group, State of Falcón, Venezuela

Mid-Tertiary Stratigraphy of the Continental Slope off Nova Scotia

“…The benthonic fauna is comparable to those described from the Agua Salada GroupVenezuela (Renz 1948), the Ecphora, Yoldia and Area facies of the Choctawhatchee Stage, Florida Panhandle (Puri 1953), the Mio-Oligocene from the Goajira Peninsula, Colombia (Becker & Dusenbury, 1958) the Miocene Foraminifera of the Coastal Plain of the Eastern United States (Cushman & Cahill 1932) and those reported from "The Gully" (Bartlett 1967).…”

“…It is apparent that most of our present collections lie within the typical Lenticulina wallacei and Siphogenerina transversa benthonic zones as described by Renz (1948). The sediments were laid down in a typically marine open sea environment at medium depths along the Continental Shelf, probably off a warm temperate to sub-tropical coast.…”

Crustal structure in the Falcón Basin area, northwestern Venezuela, from seismic and gravimetric evidence

“…This allochthonous block was emplaced during a Paleocene-Early Eocene compressive phase that affected western Venezuela, and consists mainly of flysch-related deposits and Late Cretaceous meta-sediments (Audemard, 1991;Stéphan, 1982). Above this metamorphic basement, marine sedimentation associated with the first extensional subsidence started in the easternmost area of the basin with the deposition of Late Eocene dark calcareous shales (Renz, 1948). In the Oligocene, extension continued, and spread westwards.…”

Benthonic foraminiferal paleoecology of the Brasso Formation (Globorotalia fohsi lobata and Globorotalia fohsi robusta [N11–N12] Zones), Trinidad, West Indies: A transect through an oxygen minimum zone

“…Massive blue-gray clays of the Brasso Formation underlie large areas of the Central Range and northern basin of Trinidad (Renz, 1942(Renz, , 1948, but exposures are few. At the type locality, along the upper Caparo River, Brasso Village, outcrop is intermittent and exposures accessible only during the dry season (January-April) when the river dries up.…”