La cuenca cuaternaria endorreica de Cachipampa, Calchaquenia, Salta
; Sastre, José Eduardo Otros responsables
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11/2009
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Asociación Geológica Argentina
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Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina
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La cuenca de Cachipampa, Salta, es una pequeña depresión tectónica endorreica formada durante el Cuaternario, limitada por el norte, este y oeste por serranías constituidas por terrenos precámbrico-eocámbricos de la Formación Puncoviscana; cretácico-paleógenos del Grupo Salta, y por el sur, por unidades del Eoceno Medio-Plioceno-¿Pleistoceno? del Grupo Payogastilla. El marco regional donde está emplazada es la provincia geológica Calchaquenia, al sur de la Cordillera Oriental, sobre el borde oriental del Valle Calchaquí. La tectónica la rigen fallas inversas de vergencia occidental, algunas de las cuales fueron fallas directas activas durante el depósito del Grupo Salta y, posteriormente, fallas inversas durante la inversión de esa cuenca desde el Eoceno Medio al Plioceno-¿Pleistoceno?, tiempos en que se completó el potente relleno de la cuenca de antepaís del Grupo Payogastilla. Los movimientos compresivos del diastrofismo Diaguita, que invirtieron la cuenca del Grupo Payogastilla, tuvieron como epílogo la formación de la cuenca fluvial y lacustre cuaternaria de Cachipampa, cuyo estilo tectónico se definiría como de cuenca del tipo a cuestas (o montada) o bien de cuenca intermontana con relleno postectónico.
The Cachipampa basin, in the Province of Salta, is a small, endorheic tectonic depression formed during the Quaternary and located eastwards of the valle Calchaquí. The northern, eastern and western basin boundaries are tectonic blocks formed by Puncoviscana Formation (Proterozoic-Eocambrian) and Salta Group (Cretaceous-Paleogene); the southern limit is Middle Eocene-Pliocene-Plesitocene? sediments of the Payogastilla Group. The regional framework where the Cachipampa basin is located is the geological province of Calchaquenia, southwards of Cordillera Oriental. West-verging reverse faults govern the tectonics, some of which were active normal faults during the deposition of the Salta Group. These reverse faults led to the inversion of the Salta Group basin from Middle Eocene to Pliocene-Pleistocene? and, contemporarily, the thick sedimentary filling of the Payogastilla Group foreland basin took place and was completed. The compressive movements of the Diaguita orogeny (Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene) inverted the Payogastilla Group basin and, as ultimately tectonic episode, originated the fluvial and lacustrine Quaternary basin of Cachipampa, whose structural style may defined as either that of piggyback-like basin or that of intermontane depression with postectonic sedimentary filling.
The Cachipampa basin, in the Province of Salta, is a small, endorheic tectonic depression formed during the Quaternary and located eastwards of the valle Calchaquí. The northern, eastern and western basin boundaries are tectonic blocks formed by Puncoviscana Formation (Proterozoic-Eocambrian) and Salta Group (Cretaceous-Paleogene); the southern limit is Middle Eocene-Pliocene-Plesitocene? sediments of the Payogastilla Group. The regional framework where the Cachipampa basin is located is the geological province of Calchaquenia, southwards of Cordillera Oriental. West-verging reverse faults govern the tectonics, some of which were active normal faults during the deposition of the Salta Group. These reverse faults led to the inversion of the Salta Group basin from Middle Eocene to Pliocene-Pleistocene? and, contemporarily, the thick sedimentary filling of the Payogastilla Group foreland basin took place and was completed. The compressive movements of the Diaguita orogeny (Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene) inverted the Payogastilla Group basin and, as ultimately tectonic episode, originated the fluvial and lacustrine Quaternary basin of Cachipampa, whose structural style may defined as either that of piggyback-like basin or that of intermontane depression with postectonic sedimentary filling.
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