The Tertiary Lower Tagus Basin (LTB) occupies a large area in Portugal and constitutes symmetric basin of the oriental huge Upper Basin, centered at Madrid (Spain). LTB was an endorreic during Paleogene. Marine connection occurred Aquitanian; Lisbon – Setubal Peninsula region sedimentation ocean/continent interface, with several changes coast line. Apparently, first marine transgression came fr...

The Late Cenozoic East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) enhancement has been attributed to several factors, such as uplift of the Tibetan Plateau, retreat of the Paratethys Sea, and global cooling related to polar ice volume increment. However, the fundamental forcing factors remain enigmatic due to the absence of long and continuous climate records and sensitive indicators. Here we reanalyzed the p...

Paleomagnetic studies of Neogene marine sediments have documented large clockwise rotations of the Hikurangi margin (East Coast, North Island) during the Neogene, with the exception of the Raukumara Peninsula, which is unrotated with respect to the Australian plate. Immediately south of the Raukumara Peninsula, the Wairoa region has been rotated clockwise by 50–60∞; the boundary between these d...

Despite being one of the richest Neogene deposits marine fossil vertebrates along Pacific coast South America, no detailed study bony fishes from Bahía Inglesa Formation has been carried out. Through revision historical collections Caldera Paleontological Museum, we describe 27 remains fishes. Fossils described here are distributed in 13 taxa. Among these, Sardinops sp. cf. S. sagax (Clupeidae)...