| The Botucatu Formation is an aeolian sandstone deposit during the Jurassic in the Paraná basin, which displays large-scale sets of cross strata (1 - 30 m)([[:file:Botucatu_1.jpg|Figure 1.]]), formed in a desert environment similar to today’s Sahara Desert, during the Jurassic to Cretaceous on the Gondwanna Supercontinent, with an area of c.1,500,000 km².<ref name=Milani_2007>Milani, E.J.; Melo, J.H.G., Souza, P.A.; Fernandes, L.A.; França, A.B. Bacia, 2007, do Paraná. In: Cartas Estratigráficas - Boletim de Geociências da Petrobras, Rio de Janeiro, v.15, n.2, p.265-287</ref> | | The Botucatu Formation is an aeolian sandstone deposit during the Jurassic in the Paraná basin, which displays large-scale sets of cross strata (1 - 30 m)([[:file:Botucatu_1.jpg|Figure 1.]]), formed in a desert environment similar to today’s Sahara Desert, during the Jurassic to Cretaceous on the Gondwanna Supercontinent, with an area of c.1,500,000 km².<ref name=Milani_2007>Milani, E.J.; Melo, J.H.G., Souza, P.A.; Fernandes, L.A.; França, A.B. Bacia, 2007, do Paraná. In: Cartas Estratigráficas - Boletim de Geociências da Petrobras, Rio de Janeiro, v.15, n.2, p.265-287</ref> |