Marañón fold and thrust belt
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The Marañón fold and thrust belt is a 1,000 kilometres long, northwest–southeast trending belt of deformed rocks located in the Andes of central Peru. The formation of the belt defines the Incaic Phas
The folded strata in Cordillera Huayhuash seen in picture form part of the Marañón fold and thrust belt
Miocene
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The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about 23.04 to 5.333 million years ago. The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell and comes from Ancien
Subdivisions of the Miocene
The Mediterranean during the Late Miocene
Restoration of the volcanic eruption in Harney Basin, of the western US, represented by the Rattlesnake Formation
The dragon blood tree is considered a remnant of the Mio-Pliocene Laurasian subtropical forests that are now almost extinct in North Africa.