Depositional environments and stratigraphy of the Upper Cambrian-lower Ordovician Santa Rosita formation at the Alfarcito area, Cordillera Oriental, Argentina: integration of biostratigraphic data within a sequence stratigraphic framework

The Upper Cambrian-Tremadocian rocks exposed in the Alfarcito area of Cordillera Oriental, northwest Argentina reveal a series of transgressive-regressive cycles punctuated by incision of fluvio-estuarine valleys. An integrated sedimentologic, biostratigraphic and sequence stratigraphic study permit...

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Main Authors: Luis A. Buatois, Fernando J. Zeballo, Guillermo L. Albanesi, Gladys Ortega, N. Emilio Vaccari, M. Gabriela Mangano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asociación Argentina de Sedimentología 2006-07-01
Series:Latin American Journal of Sedimentology and Basin Analysis
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1851-49792006000100001