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The Magallanes Basin
[A] or Austral Basin
[B] is a major
sedimentary basin in southern
Patagonia . The basin covers a surface of about 170,000 to 200,000 square kilometres (66,000 to 77,000 sq mi) and has a NNW-SSE oriented shape.
[1]
[2] The basin is bounded to the west by the
Andes mountains and is separated from the
Malvinas Basin to the east by the Río Chico-Dungeness High.
[1] The basin evolved from being an
extensional
back-arc basin in the
Mesozoic to being a compressional
foreland basin in the
Cenozoic .
[3] Rocks within the basin are
Jurassic in age and include the
Cerro Toro Formation .
[4] Three ages of the
SALMA classification are defined in the basin; the
Early Miocene
Santacrucian from the
Santa Cruz Formation and
Friasian from the
Río Frías Formation and the
Pleistocene
Ensenadan from the
La Ensenada Formation .
The Magallanes Basin contains most of
Chile's coal reserves dwarfing those found in the
Arauco Basin or around
Valdivia (e.g.
Catamutún ,
Mulpún ). Its coals are
lignitic to
sub-bituminous .
[5]
Stratigraphy
Aysén Basin
The northwesternmost reaches of the basin form a sub-basin known as Aysén Basin or Río Mayo Embayment. From top to bottom the fill the basin is:
[6]
Northwestern basin
In the Argentinian parts of the basin, the following formations have been registered from north to south:
[7]
South-central basin
Tierra del Fuego
See also
Notes
References
^
a
b Gallardo, Rocío E. (2014).
"Seismic sequence stratigraphy of a foreland unit inthe [sic ] Magallanes-Austral Basin, Dorado Riquelme Block, Chile: Implications for deep-marine reservoirs" .
Latin American Journal of Sedimentology and Basin Analysis (in Spanish). 1221 (1). Retrieved 7 December 2015 .
^
"Cuenca Austral" . Secretaría de Energía (in Spanish). Government of Argentina. Retrieved 30 November 2015 . De una superficie total de 170.000 Km2, unos 23.000 Km2 pertenecen al área costa afuera.
^ Wilson, T.J. (1991). "Transition from back-arc to foreland basin development in the southernmost Andes: Stratigraphic record from the Ultima Esperanza District, Chile". Geological Society of America Bulletin . 103 (1): 98–111.
Bibcode :
1991GSAB..103...98W .
doi :
10.1130/0016-7606(1991)103<0098:tfbatf>2.3.co;2 .
^ Fosdick, Julie C. (2007). Late Miocene Exhumation of the Magallanes Basin and sub-Andean fold belt, southern Chile: New constrains from apatite U-Th/He thermochronology . Geological Society of America, Denver Annual Meeting (28–31 October 2007) Paper No. 123-15. Denver.
^ Hackley, Paul C.; Warwick, Peter D.; Alfaro, Guillermo H.; Cuebas, Rosenelsy M. (2006).
"World Coal Quality Inventory: Chile" (PDF) . World Coal Quality Inventory: South America (Report). USGS. pp. 90–131. Retrieved February 23, 2017 .
^ Demant, A.; Suárez, M.; de la Cruz, R.; Bruguier, O (2010). "Early Cretaceous Surtseyan volcanoes of the Baño Nuevo Volcanic Complex (Aysén Basin, Eastern Central Patagonian Cordillera, Chile)".
Geologica Acta . 8 (2): 207–219.
doi :
10.1344/105.000001530 .
^ Pérez Panera, 2010, p.52
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Further reading
Sedimentary basins of Argentina
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