Opening and Closure of the Neuquén Basin in the Southern Andes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Opening of the Neuquén Basin in the Western Gondwana margin

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Syn-Rift of the Neuquén Basin (Precuyano and Lower Cuyano Cycle): Review of Structure, Volcanism, Tectono-Stratigraphy and Depositional Scenarios

      • Leandro D’Elia, Andrés Bilmes, Maximiliano Naipauer, Gustavo D. Vergani, Martín Muravchik, Juan R. Franzese

      Pages 3-21

   3. Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution of the Atuel Depocenter During the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic Rift Stage, Neuquén Basin, West-Central Argentina

      • Florencia Bechis, Laura B. Giambiagi, Maisa A. Tunik, Julieta Suriano, Silvia Lanés, José F. Mescua

      Pages 23-52

   4. Jurassic Uplift Along the Huincul Arch and Its Consequences in the Stratigraphy of the Cuyo and Lotena Groups. Neuquén Basin, Argentina

      • Carlos Zavala, Mariano Arcuri, Mariano Di Meglio, Agustín Zorzano, Germán Otharán

      Pages 53-74

   5. Environmental Controls and Facies Architecture of a Jurassic Carbonate Episode (La Manga Formation), Mendoza Province, Neuquén Basin

      • Ricardo M. Palma, Graciela S. Bressan, Alberto C. Riccardi, José López-Gómez, Javier Martín-Chivelet

      Pages 75-105

   6. Early Andean Magmatism in Southern Central Chile (33°–40° S)

      • Pablo Rossel, Francisco Carvajal

      Pages 107-126

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

      • José F. Mescua, Julieta Suriano, Laura Jazmín Schencman, Laura B. Giambiagi, Patricia Sruoga, Elizabeth Balgord et al.

      Pages 127-157

   8. Tectonic Setting of the Tordillo Formation in the Aconcagua Fold-and-Thrust Belt

      • Eliana Acevedo, Eduardo Agustín Rosselot, Federico Martos, Lucas Fennell, Maximiliano Naipauer, Andrés Folguera

      Pages 159-174

   9. Magnetostratigraphy of the Jurassic Through Lower Cretaceous in the Neuquén Basin

      • María Paula Iglesia Llanos, Diego A. Kietzmann

      Pages 175-210

   10. Orbital Controls and High-Resolution Cyclostratigraphy of Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous in the Neuquén Basin

       • Diego A. Kietzmann, María Paula Iglesia Llanos, Melisa Kohan Martínez

       Pages 211-235

   11. Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Agrio Formation (Late Valanginian–Earliest Barremian) and the Closure of the Mendoza Group to the North of the Huincul High

       • Pablo José Pazos, Marcos Comerio, Diana Elizabeth Fernández, Carolina Gutiérrez, María Candela González Estebenet, Arturo Miguel Heredia

       Pages 237-265

3. Closure of the Neuquén Basin in the Southern Andes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-267

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   2. Middle Jurassic-Late Cretaceous Paleogeography of the Western Margin of the Neuquén Basin (34° 30′–36° S)

      • Felipe Tapia, Marcia Muñoz, Marcelo Farías, Reynaldo Charrier, Daniela Astaburuaga

      Pages 269-301

   3. The Late Cretaceous Orogenic System: Early Inversion of the Neuquén Basin and Associated Synorogenic Deposits (35º–38º S)

      • Lucas Fennell, Pablo Borghi, Federico Martos, Eduardo Agustín Rosselot, Maximiliano Naipauer, Andrés Folguera

      Pages 303-322

   4. Structural and Thermochronological Constraints on the Exhumation of the Chos Malal Fold and Thrust Belt (~37° S)

      • Natalia Sánchez, Martín Turienzo, Isabelle Coutand, Fernando Lebinson, Vanesa Araujo, Luis Dimieri

      Pages 323-340

   5. The Andean Foreland Evolution of the Neuquén Basin: A Discussion

      • Facundo Fuentes, Brian K. Horton

      Pages 341-370

   6. Thermochronological Constraints on the Exhumation of the Malargüe Fold-Thrust Belt, Southern Central Andes

      • Alejandro Bande, Andrés Boll, Facundo Fuentes, Brian K. Horton, Daniel F. Stockli

      Pages 371-396

   7. Late Cretaceous to Oligocene Magmatic Evolution of the Neuquén Basin

      • Sofía B. Iannelli, Lucas Fennell, Lucía Fernández Paz, Vanesa D. Litvak, Alfonso Encinas, Andrés Folguera

      Pages 397-416

   8. The Oligo-Miocene Tectonic Mode Switch: From a Brief Period of Widespread Extension to the Final Closure of the Neuquén Basin

      • Lucas Fennell, Javier Quinteros, Andrés Folguera

      Pages 417-429

This book provides an overview of newly gathered material focusing on the opening and closure of The Neuquén Basin. The Neuquén Basin contains the most important hydrocarbon reservoirs in Argentina and therefore is characterized by a profound knowledge of the sedimentation mechanisms and closure times. During the last 10 years a considerable amount of new information has been produced that illustrates a complex evolution that involves more than one synrift stage during its evolution, an aborted sag phase associated with the inception of a first foreland basin in late Early Cretaceous times, two extensional destabilizations in the Late Cretaceous-Paleocene and late Oligocene times and a Neogene magmatic expansion coetaneous to a last mountain building. These processes have produced a polyphasic complex structure that exhumed the rich sedimentary record that characterizes the basin.

• Neuquén Basin
• Hydrocarbon Reservoir
• Sedimentation
• Multiple Synrift Stages
• Foreland Basin
• Early Cretaceous Era
• Late Cretaceous-Paelocene
• Late Oligocene Era
• Neogene Magmatic Expansion
• hydrogeology

• IGeBA - UBA, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  Diego Kietzmann

• Instituto de Estudions Andinos - UBA CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  Andrés Folguera

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