Salta Basin
{{Infobox sedimentary basin
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| other_name = Cuenca Salta
| named_for = Salta Province
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| region = Argentine Northwest
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| state = Salta, Jujuy, Tucumán
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Antofagasta
| cities = Salta
| onoffshore = Onshore
| boundaries = Andes
| partof = Andean foreland basins
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| basin_type = Foreland-on-rift basin or
intracontinental rift basin
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| orogeny = Andean
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Salta Basin or Salta Rift Basin is a sedimentary basin located in the Argentine Northwest. The basin started to accumulate sediments in the Early Cretaceous (Neocomian) and at present it has sedimentary deposits reaching thicknesses of {{convert|5000|m|ft}}. The basin contains seven sub-basins: Tres Cruces, Lomas de Olmedo, Metán, Alemanía, Salfity, El Rey, Sey and Brealito. The basin environment has variously been described as a "foreland rift" and an "intra-continental rift". The basin developed under conditions of extensional tectonics and rift-associated volcanism.
Description
The basin basement is composed of rocks belonging to the Puncoviscana Formation.Grier et al., 1991 The volcanism that began in the Late Jurassic was initially of subalkaline character (low sodium and potassium content), but turned increasingly alkaline in the Early Cretaceous.Marquillas et al., 2005
The rifts of Salta Basin developed in a time of generalized extensional tectonics along western South America.Ramos, 2009 It has been proposed that the Salar de Atacama depression in Chile was once a westward rift arm of the Salta Basin.Reutter et al., 2006
= Stratigraphy =
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! Age !! Group !! Subgroup !! Formation !! Lithologies !! Basin stage !! Notes | ||||||
| style="background-color: {{period color|pliocene}};" | Pliocene | rowspan=12 | Payogastilla | San Felipe | Conglomerates | rowspan=12 | Foreland | align=center | Galli et al., 2019, p.380 | |
| style="background-color: {{period color|pliocene}};" | Huayquerian | rowspan=2 | Jujuy | Piquete | align=center | González & Abascal, 2012Galli et al., 2019, p.369 | |||
| style="background-color: {{period color|pliocene}};" | Huayquerian | Guanaco Sonso | align=center | López Rodríguez, 2018 | ||||
| style="background-color: {{period color|messinian}};" | Montehermosan | rowspan=2 | | rowspan=2 | Palo Pintado | rowspan=2 | | rowspan=2 align=center | Galli et al., 2011 | ||
| style="background-color: {{period color|tortonian}};" | Chasicoan | ||||||
| style="background-color: {{period color|serravallian}};" | Laventan | rowspan=2 | | rowspan=2 | Angastaco | rowspan=2 | | rowspan=2 align=center | | ||
| style="background-color: {{period color|burdigalian}};" | Friasian | ||||||
| style="background-color: {{period color|burdigalian}};" | Friasian | rowspan=3 | Metán | Jesús María | align=center | Galli & Hernández, 1999, p.171 | |||
| style="background-color: {{period color|burdigalian}};" | Friasian | Anta | align=center | | ||||
| style="background-color: {{period color|aquitanian}};" | Early Miocene | Río Seco | align=center | | ||||
| style="background-color: {{period color|priabonian}};" | Priabonian | Los Colorados | align=center | | ||||
| rowspan=2 style="background-color: {{period color|bartonian}};" | Casamayoran | Quebrada de los Colorados | align=center | Del Papa et al., 2013 | ||||
| rowspan=18 | Salta | rowspan=5 | Santa Bárbara | rowspan=2 | Lumbrera | rowspan=2 | | rowspan=5 | Late post-rift | rowspan=2 align=center | Marquillas et al., 2005, p.96Del Papa, 2006 | |
| style="background-color: {{period color|lutetian}};" | Lutetian | ||||||
| style="background-color: {{period color|ypresian}};" | Itaboraian | rowspan=2 | Maíz Gordo | rowspan=2 | | rowspan=2 align=center | Narváez, 2009 | |||
| style="background-color: {{period color|thanetian}};" | Thanetian | ||||||
| style="background-color: {{period color|selandian}};" | Peligran | Mealla | Sandstones, siltstones, conglomerates, paleosols | align=center | Sánchez & Marquillas, 2010 | |||
| style="background-color: {{period color|selandian}};" | Selandian | rowspan=5 | Balbuena | Tunal | rowspan=5 | Early post-rift | align=center | | ||
| rowspan=2 style="background-color: {{period color|danian}};" | Danian | Olmedo | align=center | | ||||
| rowspan=2 | Yacoraite | rowspan=2 | Sandstones, limestones | rowspan=2 align=center | | ||||
| style="background-color: {{period color|maastrichtian}};" | Maastrichtian | ||||||
| style="background-color: {{period color|maastrichtian}};" | early Maastrichtian | Lecho | Sandstones | align=center | | |||
| rowspan=2 style="background-color: {{period color|campanian}};" | Campanian | rowspan=8 | Pirgua | Los Blanquitos | Sandstones | Late synrift | align=center | | |
| rowspan=4 | Las Curtiembres | rowspan=4 | | rowspan=7 | Early synrift | rowspan=4 align=center | | |||
| style="background-color: {{period color|santonian}};" | Santonian | ||||||
| style="background-color: {{period color|coniacian}};" | Coniacian | ||||||
| style="background-color: {{period color|turonian}};" | Turonian | ||||||
| style="background-color: {{period color|cenomanian}};" | Cenomanian | Isonza | Basalt | align=center | | |||
| style="background-color: {{period color|albian}};" | Albian | rowspan=2 | La Yesera | rowspan=2 | | rowspan=2 align=center | | |||
| style="background-color: {{period color|aptian}};" | Aptian |
References
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;Guanaco Sonso Formation
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;Lumbrera Formation
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;Maíz Gordo Formation
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;Mealla Formation
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;Palo Pintado Formation
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;Piquete Formation
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;Quebrada de Los Colorados Formation
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Further reading
- {{citation |last1=Moreno |first1=Teresa |last2=Gibbons |first2=Wes |year=2006 |title=Geology of Chile |url=https://www.u-cursos.cl/usuario/74db06406c5f883b052c2d22911d03db/mi_blog/r/Geology_of_Chile.pdf |publisher=Geological Society of London |pages=1–396 |accessdate=2018-09-06 |isbn=9781862392199}}
{{Major South American geological formations}}
{{Sedimentary basins of Argentina}}
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