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Article: The Geology Of Venezuela.
- Article from:
- APS Review Gas Market Trends
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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The Venezuelan land area embraces some 920,000 sq km lying between the Equator and latitude 10 degrees north. The western part of the country comprises two northerly trending mountain chains which are the result of the bifurcation of the Andes. Between them lie two major bodies of water, Lake Maracaibo and the Gulf of Venezuela.
The northern Caribbean coast is marked by an east-west trending chain of mountains which formed as a result of movements at the junction of the South American and the Caribbean tectonic plates. To the south of this range, the Orinoco and Apure rivers drain from the west and the south-west before debouching via a large delta into the ...
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