| The paleowind regimes show a monsoonal pattern during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, the main winds blew to the NE during the Southern Hemisphere winter and to the SE during the Southern Hemisphere summer<ref name=Scherer_et_Golberg_2007 />. | | The paleowind regimes show a monsoonal pattern during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, the main winds blew to the NE during the Southern Hemisphere winter and to the SE during the Southern Hemisphere summer<ref name=Scherer_et_Golberg_2007 />. |
− | One of the largest aquifer system, the Guarani Aquifer, is located in the Paraná Basin and the Botucatu Formation is part of it as a very permeable sandstone sealed by the lava flows from the Serra Geral Formation.<ref name=Scherer_2002>Scherer, C.M.S., 2002, Preservation of aeolian genetic units by lava flow in the Lower Cretaceous of the Paraná Basin, southern Brazil: Sedimentology, v. 49, p. 97–116.</ref> | + | One of the largest aquifer system, the Guarani Aquifer, is located in the Paraná Basin and the Botucatu Formation is part of it as a very permeable sandstone sealed by the lava flows from the Serra Geral Formation.<ref name=Scherer_2002>Scherer, C. M. S., 2002, Preservation of aeolian genetic units by lava flow in the Lower Cretaceous of the Paraná Basin, southern Brazil: Sedimentology, v. 49, p. 97–116.</ref> |