Controls on Deposition of the Tordillo Formation in Southern Mendoza (34°–36° S): Implications for the Kimmeridgian Tectonic Setting of the Neuquén Basin

• Main Authors: Mescua, Jose Francisco, Suriano, Julieta, Schencman, Laura Jazmín, Giambiagi, Laura Beatriz, Sruoga, Patricia, Balgord, E., Bechis, Florencia
• Other Authors: Kietzmann, Diego Alejandro, Folguera Telichevsky, Andres
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: Late Jurassic; Extension; Late synrift; Backarc basin; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Patagonia; Argentino; Argentina; Julieta; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/142037

The Tordillo Formation is a continental succession of red beds deposited in the Neuquén basin during the Kimmeridgian. Based on sedimentological and structural evidence we document an extensional setting between 34˚ and 36˚ S, in the northern part of the basin, which contrasts with a transpressional...