Sediment Transfer from Shelf to Deepwater - Revisiting the Delivery Mechanisms. AAPG Hedberg Research Conference Guidebook.

PONCE, J.J.; OLIVERO, E.B.

Año: 2008 p. 94

This field trip guide documents the geologic features of the foredeep of the foreland Austral Basin of Tierra del Fuego in two main parts. The first part consists of a review of the evolution of the Mezosoic-Cenozoic stratigraphy of the Fuegian Andes that accompanies the main description and interpretation of the Upper Oligocene-Miocene deep marine depositional sequences with the discussion of their architectural elements, geometries, hyperpycnal facies arrangements, and the implications for hydrocarbon exploration, together with their ichnology. The second part focuses on the sedimentological field trip of two days, with a first excursion day concentrated on the analysis of the architectural elements that constitute the deep marine channel-levee complexes in the locality of Cabo Viamonte, and a second day concerned with the internal arrangements of hyperpycnal lobe deposits in submarine ramp systems at the Cabo Ladrillero locality.