Somún Cura Massif
Stratigraphy
The massif consists of a basement formed by Cambro-Ordovician rocks, overlain by the Middle Silurian Sierra Grande Formation. The early Paleozoic section is covered by metamorphic and igneous complexes; the Permian Pailemán and Navarrete Plutonic Complexes, and the unconformably overlying Early to Middle Jurassic Marifil Volcanic Complex. The Marifil Complex is separated from the Paleozoic sequence by the Enjambre Dikes, dated to the Late Triassic with ages varying between 221 ± 12 and 207 ± 11 Ma.
The Cenozoic cover of the western belt of the massif comprises the Eocene to Oligocene Ventana and Ñirihuau Formations in the north and the Middle to Late Miocene Ñorquincó Formation in the south. The eastern belt of the North Patagonian Massif contains the Miocene (Colloncuran) Collón Cura Formation, the Miocene La Pava Formation, and the Miocene Chimehuín Formation in the northern part of the eastern belt.
See also
References
- ^ Gomez Dacal, Maria Laura; Tocho, Claudia; Aragon, Eugenio (2013). "Adaptación de un modelo gravimétrico tridimensional al área del macizo norpatagónico". Geoacta (in Spanish). 38 (2). Retrieved 5 January 2016.
- ^ González et al., 2014, p.175
- ^ González et al., 2014, p.176
- ^ Dalla Salda & Franzese, 1987, p.7
- ^ Dalla Salda & Franzese, 1987, p.8
Bibliography
- Gónzalez, Santiago N. (2014), "Geología, petrografía y edad U-Pb de un enjambre longitudinal NO-SE de diques del Macizo Nordpatagónico oriental, Río Negro", Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, 71: 174–183, retrieved 2018-09-04
- Dalla Salda, Luis; Franzese, Juan (1987), "Las megaestructuras del Macizo y Cordillera Norpatagónica argentina y la génesis de las cuencas volcano-sedimentarias terciarias", Revista Geológica de Chile, 31: 3–13, retrieved 2018-09-04