Malargue Group (Maastrichtian-Danian) deposits in the Neuquen Andes, Argentina: Implications for the onset of the first Atlantic transgression related to Western Gondwana breakup

Aguirre-Urreta, M. Beatriz; Tunik, M.; Naipauer, M.; Pazos, Pablo; Ottone, E.; Fanning, Christopher; Ramos, V.A.

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Malargue Group (Maastrichtian-Danian) deposits in the Neuquen Andes, Argentina: Implications for the onset of the first Atlantic transgression related to Western Gondwana breakup

Date

2011

Authors

Aguirre-Urreta, M. Beatriz

Tunik, M.

Naipauer, M.

Pazos, Pablo

Ottone, E.

Fanning, Christopher

Ramos, V.A.

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

The discovery of marine to brackish and fresh-water carbonates in the inner Agrio fold-and-thrust belt at Pichaihue, Neuquén, Argentina, located to the west of the Andean orogenic front, imposes important constraints on the paleogeography of the first At