Talara Basin
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Talara Basin (Spanish: Cuenca de Talara) is a depression filled with sedimentary rock, that is a sedimentary basin, in northwestern Peru.[1] On wider scale Talara Basin is located within rocks of an older and larger sedimentary basin that developed in the Mesozoic and Paleozoic.[1] Talara Basin contains various minor oil and gas fields.[1] The oil and gas reservoirs of the formation are trapped structural and stratigraphical features.[1] The source rock of the oil and gas is thought to be marine shales of Cenozoic age but some may come from similar shales but of Cretaceous age.[1] Oil has been extracted from its onshore field since the mid-1800s.[2] The basin covers an area of no less than 15,000 km2.[2]
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