Talara Basin ( es, Cuenca de Talara) is a depression filled with sedimentary rock, that is a sedimentary basin, in northwestern Peru. On wider scale Talara Basin is located within rocks of an older and larger sedimentary basin that developed in the Mesozoic and Paleozoic. Talara Basin contains various minor oil and gas fields. The oil and gas reservoirs of the formation are trapped structural and

stratigraphical Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification). It is primarily used in the study of sedimentary and layered volcanic rocks. Stratigraphy has three related subfields: lithostrati ...

features. The source rock of the oil and gas is thought to be marine

shale Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especial ...

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Cenozoic The Cenozoic ( ; ) is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history. It is characterised by the dominance of mammals, birds and flowering plants, a cooling and drying climate, and the current configura ...

age but some may come from similar shales but of Cretaceous age. Oil has been extracted from its

onshore Onshore can mean: *An onshore company is a legal entity that is incorporated in a country to operate a business there; the opposite of offshoring (including reshoring Offshoring is the relocation of a business process from one country to another ...

field since the mid-1800s. The basin covers an area of no less than 15,000 km².

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in SEG Wiki {{coord missing, Peru Sedimentary basins of Peru Forearc basins Cretaceous Peru Paleogene Peru Neogene Peru Paleontology in Peru

Basins Basin may refer to: Geography and geology * Depression (geology) ** Back-arc basin, a submarine feature associated with island arcs and subduction zones ** Debris basin, designed to prevent damage from debris flow ** Drainage basin (hydrology), a ...

Oil fields of Peru