Salar de Antofalla is a
salt flat in the
Andes of
Catamarca Province in the
Argentine Northwest. The salt flat contains systems of
oncoids that grow in the interface between proper salt flat and an adjacent wetlands. The geology surrounding the southern part of Salar de Antofalla is made up of continental (e.i. non-marine)
sedimentary rock that deposited from
Late Eocene to
Early Pleistocene times.
References
- ^ Villafañe, Patricio Guillermo; Lencina, Agustina Inés; Soria, Mariana; Saona, Luis Alberto; Gómez, Fernado Javier; Alonso, Guido Ezequiel; Farías, María Eugenia (2021-05-01). "Las Quínoas oncoids: a new deposit of microbialites in the Salar de Antofalla (Catamarca, Argentina)". Andean Geology. 48 (2): 281–302. doi:10.5027/andgeoV48n2-3292. hdl:11336/148257.
- ^ Voss, Reno (2002). "Cenozoic stratigraphy of the southern Salar de Antofalla region, northwestern Argentina". Revista Geológica de Chile (in Spanish). 29 (2): 167–189. doi:10.4067/S0716-02082002000200002.
