The Puesto Piris Formation: Evidence of basin-development in the North Patagonian Massif during crustal extension associated with Gondwana breakup

The Marifil Volcanic Complex, exposed in the eastern North Patagonian Massif, Argentina, includes up to 550 m of red conglomerates, sandstones, black siltstones, limestones, and reworked tuff of the Puesto Piris Formation. The basal part of this unit, which was deposited in high-gradient topographic...

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Main Authors: Leonardo Strazzere, Daniel A. Gregori, Leonardo Benedini, Paulo Marcos, Mercedes V. Barros, Mauro C. Geraldes, Cecilia Pavon Pivetta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987118300355