Andrés Folguera

Diego Kietzmann

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.

Opening and Closure of the Neuquén Basin in the Southern Andes

Eduardo Contreras-Reyes

Nemesio Heredia

Alfonso Encinas

Sofía B. Iannelli

Verónica Oliveros

Federico M. Dávila

Gilda Collo

Laura Giambiagi

Andrei Maksymowicz

María Paula Iglesia Llanos

Martín Turienzo

Maximiliano Naipauer

Darío Orts

Vanesa D. Litvak

Orlando Alvarez

César Arriagada

This book describes the Mesozoic to Cenozoic evolution of the Chilean and Argentinean Andes. The book is structured from a historical perspective concentrating on specific processes explained in each chapter. The chapters cover dynamic subsidence; neotectonics; magmatism; long and short term deformation; spatial development of ancient orogenic processes that control Andean reactivations; relation between ocean bathymetry and deformation. Sources of detritus through Andean construction are discussed by specialists from both sides of the Southern Andes. This book provides up-to-date reviews, maps, evolutionary schemes and extensive reference lists useful for geoscientists and students in Earth Science fields.

The Evolution of the Chilean-Argentinean Andes

Andrés Folguera

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