IDEAN   23403
INSTITUTO DE ESTUDIOS ANDINOS "DON PABLO GROEBER"
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Ottone, E.G. 2014. Arrancando de las sombras la dilatada extensión del territorio: la geología de Olascoaga (Emerging from the shadows the dilated extension of the territory: the geology of Olascoaga)
Autor/es:
OTTONE, E.G.
Revista:
INHIGEO ANNUAL RECORD
Editorial:
INHIGEO
Referencias:
Lugar: Canberra; Año: 2015 vol. 47 p. 105 - 105
ISSN:
1028-1533
Resumen:
Olascoaga was topographical engineer, military man, draftsman, writer, journalist and the first governor of Neuquén. He also was an enthusiast promoter of the geological knowledge and the exploitation of the mineral and hydrocarbon resources, and a pioneer in the geological exploration of the pampas, north of Río Negro, Mendoza and Neuquén, Argentina. Estudio topográfico de La Pampa y Río Negro, probably his better known work, included his observations together with notes of Day, Dupont, Gomensoro and Villegas. Publications as Memoria del Departamento de Ingenieros Militares, Notas descriptivas del Neuquén, Topografía andina, Aguas perdidas and Compendio geográfico de la provincia de Mendoza, also bear geological information. Otherwise, the Archivo del Coronel Olascoaga housed a good deal of texts of his own as well as of others, and specially, the reports of Brackebusch, Courtois and Langlois. All these writings gave geological data from regions that were quite unknown in the second half of the 19th century. The visualization and contextualization of all these texts highlight their geological interest and historical value.