2012
DOI: 10.5027/andgeov39n3-a04
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Sedimentary paleoenvironments of the Toro Negro Formation (Neogene), Andean broken foreland, northwest Argentina.

Abstract: RESUMEN.La Formación Toro Negro (Neógeno) registra parte de la sedimentación de la cuenca de antepaís fracturado de Vinchina (Orogenia Andina) en el NW argentino. Esta unidad está compuesta por conglomerados, areniscas y pelitas junto con algunos niveles de brechas y tobas depositados principalmente en ambientes continentales. Once asociaciones de facies (AF) fueron reconocidas: ocho corresponden al miembro inferior y tres al superior. La AFI está compuesta por megabrechas intraformacionales y conglomerados de… Show more

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“…Re ´and Barredo 1993aBarredo , 1993b. In addition, the reactivation of crustal faults by uplift of basement blocks may have also controlled thickness, facies trends, and sediment composition (Ciccioli and Marenssi 2012;Ciccioli et al 2013b;Ciccioli et al 2014a). In the western part of the La Rioja province a very thick and continuous Neogene sedimentary sequence that crops out along the Sierra de Los Colorados (Figs.…”
Section: Tectonic Setting and Basin Stratigraphymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Re ´and Barredo 1993aBarredo , 1993b. In addition, the reactivation of crustal faults by uplift of basement blocks may have also controlled thickness, facies trends, and sediment composition (Ciccioli and Marenssi 2012;Ciccioli et al 2013b;Ciccioli et al 2014a). In the western part of the La Rioja province a very thick and continuous Neogene sedimentary sequence that crops out along the Sierra de Los Colorados (Figs.…”
Section: Tectonic Setting and Basin Stratigraphymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The lower member is composed mainly of sandstones, mudstones, muddy intraformational breccias and extraformational conglomerates with some tuff layers. These rocks were deposited in various kinds of anastomosing fluvial systems, braided rivers, siliciclastic and saline shallow lakes (playa lakes), as well as eolian and fluviale eolian interaction systems (Ciccioli, 2008;Ciccioli and Marenssi, 2012). For the most part, sedimentation took place under semiarid to arid climatic conditions indicated by abundant desiccation cracks and intercalations of eolian and eolianefluvial interaction deposits.…”
Section: Geological Setting and Stratigraphymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The upper member of the Toro Negro Formation is mainly composed of cobble conglomerate and coarse-grained sandstone deposited in braided rivers and streamflow-dominated piedmonts with some thin intercalations of fine-grained sediments corresponding to a tuffaceous braidplain (Ciccioli, 2008;Ciccioli and Marenssi, 2012). Lastly, the basin fill culminates with breccias, conglomerates and coarse sandstones deposited in alluvial fans and piedmont systems during the eastward migration of the orogenic front (El Corral Formation, Pliocene).…”
Section: Geological Setting and Stratigraphymentioning
confidence: 99%
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