Cuyo Basin (Spanish : Cuenca Cuyana ) is a sedimentary basin in Mendoza Province , western Argentina . The Cuyo Basin has a NNW-SSE elongated shape and is limited to the west by the Sierra Pintada System and to the east by the Pampean pericraton . To the north the basin reaches the area around the city of Mendoza .[ 1]
Description
The Cuyo Basin has an approximate area of 30,000 square kilometres (12,000 sq mi).[ 2] Subcuenca Cacheuta ) in the north and Alvear (Spanish: Subcuenca Alvear ) in the south. The northern fringes of Cacheuta sub-basin reaches into San Juan Province . The basin existed already during the Triassic but its current shape is derivative of the Andean orogeny .[ 1]
The basin originated as a rift basin in the context of extensional tectonics and crustal thinning that followed the Paleozoic Gondwanide orogeny .[ note 1]
Stratigraphy
The stratigraphy of the Cuyo Basin comprises the following formations:
See also
Notes and references
Notes
References
^ a b "Cuenca Cuyana" . Secretaría de Energía (in Spanish). Government of Argentina. Retrieved 30 November 2015 .^ Zencich et al., 2008, p.110
^ a b c Spalletti et al., 2008, p.270
^ Yrigoyen, 1993
^ Garrido et al, 2017, p.51
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Zencich et al., 2008, p.112
^ a b c d Spalletti et al., 2008, p.269
^ Spalletti et al., 2005
^ a b Finney, 2007
^ a b Keller et al., 1998
Bibliography
General Spalletti, L.A.; Fanning, C.M.; Rapela, C.W. (2008), "Dating the Triassic continental rift in the southern Andes: the Potrerillos Formation, Cuyo Basin, Argentina" , Geologica Acta 6 (3): 267–283, retrieved 2020-07-14 Zencich, Silvia; Villar, Héctor J.; Boggetti, Daniel (2008), Sistema petrolero Cacheuta-Barrancas de la Cuenca Cuyana, Provincia de Mendoza, Argentina (PDF) , Sistemas Petroleros de las Cuencas Andinas , pp. 109–134, retrieved 2017-08-21 Finney, S.C (2007), "The parautochthonous Gonwanan origin of the Cuyania (greater Precordillera) terrane of Argentina: A re-evaluation of evidence used to support an allochthonous Laurentian origin" , Geologica Acta 5 : 127–158, retrieved 2020-07-14 Spalletti, L.; Morel, E.; Artabe, A.; Zavattieri, A.; Ganuza, D. (2005), "Stratigraphy, sedimentary facies and palaeoflora of the Potrerillos Triassic succession, Mendoza, Republic of Argentina" , Revista Geológica de Chile 32 : 249–272, doi :10.4067/S0716-02082005000200005 , retrieved 2020-07-14 Keller, M.; Buggisch, W.; Lehnert, O. (1998), "The stratigraphical record of the Argentine Precordillera and its plate-tectonic background. The Proto-Andean Margin of Gondwana" , Geological Society, London, Special Publications 142 : 35–56, doi :10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.142.01.03 , retrieved 2020-07-14 Yrigoyen, Marcelo R (1993), "Revisión estratigráfica del Neogeno de las Huayquerías de Mendoza septentrional, Argentina" , Ameghiniana 31 : 125–138, retrieved 2019-03-08 Divisadero Largo Formation Huayquerías Formation Forasiepi, Analía M.; MacPhee, Ross D.E.; Hernández del Pino, Santiago; Schmidt, Gabriela I.; Amson, Eli; Grohé, Camille (2016), "Exceptional skull of Huayqueriana (Mammalia, Litopterna, Macraucheniidae) from the Late Miocene of Argentina: anatomy, systematics and paleobiological implications" (PDF) , Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 404 : 1–76, doi :10.1206/0003-0090-404.1.1 , retrieved 2018-10-01 Garrido, Alberto C.; Bonini, Ricardo; Barbeau, David L. (2017), Paleoambiente, edad y vertebrados de la Formación Huayquerías, Mioceno tardio, Provincia de Mendoza, Republica Argentina , retrieved 2018-09-10 Mariño Formation Cerdeño, Esperanza; Vera, Bárbara; Combina, Ana María (2018), "A new early Miocene Mesotheriidae (Notoungulata) from the Mariño Formation (Argentina): Taxonomic and biostratigraphic implications" , Journal of South American Earth Sciences 88 : 118–131, Bibcode :2018JSAES..88..118C , doi :10.1016/j.jsames.2018.06.016 , hdl :11336/158508 , retrieved 2019-02-11 Cerdeño, Esperanza; Guiomar Vucetich, M. (2007), "The first rodent from the Mariño Formation (Miocene) at Divisadero Largo (Mendoza, Argentina) and its biochronological implications" (PDF) , Andean Geology 34 : 199–207, doi :10.5027/andgeoV34n2-a02 , retrieved 2017-10-23
Further reading
Bally, A.W.; Snelson, S. (1980), "Realms of subsidence", Canadian Society for Petroleum Geology Memoir , 6 : 9–94 Kingston, D.R.; Dishroon, C.P.; Williams, P.A. (1983), "Global Basin Classification System" (PDF) , AAPG Bulletin 67 : 2175–2193, retrieved 2017-06-23 Klemme, H.D (1980), "Petroleum Basins - Classifications and Characteristics", Journal of Petroleum Geology 3 (2): 187–207, Bibcode :1980JPetG...3..187K , doi :10.1111/j.1747-5457.1980.tb00982.x
Sedimentary basins of Argentina
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