The provenance area of these continental deposits up to Middle Ypresian times was mainly the Massif Central.
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The overlying sedimentary layers are a mix of Holocene, Pleistocene, and Pliocene continental deposits and Miocene marine deposits.
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In the uppermost Oligocene and lower Miocene rifting started, and continental deposits were made . followed by marine deposits on a shallow shelf.
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MSL ) ] ] Over the past 20 million years continental deposits have been periodically laid down and subsequently jostled around by the newly formed San Andreas Fault system, forming the Coast Ranges.
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In Europe, the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian are one more-or-less continuous sequence of lowland continental deposits and are grouped together as the Carboniferous system, and sometimes called the " Upper Carboniferous " and " Lower Carboniferous " instead.
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At the peak of the rainy season, these interconnected waterways are a prominent feature of the landscape . Its location in the Sombreiro-Warri deltaic plains, which consists of coastal plains sands and other tertiary deposits marine, mixed, and continental deposits typical of deltaic environments situates it in the rain forest zone of southern Nigeria.