Puduhuapi Formation

Puduhuapi Formation
Stratigraphic range: Miocene
Type Geological formation
Thickness c. 35 m (115 ft)
Lithology
Primary Sandstone, siltstone, conglomerate
Location
Region Los Lagos Region
Country  Chile
Type section
Named by Levi et al., 1966

The Puduhuapi Formation is a sedimentary formation whose only known outcrops are in Puduhuapi Island west of Chaitén in western Patagonia, Chile. Lithologies vary from sandstone and siltstone to conglomerate. The sediment that now forms the rock deposited during the Miocene no earlier than 23 million years ago.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ Encinas, Alfonso; Folguera, Andrés; Bechis, Florencia; Finger, Kenneth L.; Zambrano, Patricio; Pérez, Felipe; Benarbé, Pablo; Tapia, Francisca; Riffo, Ricardo; Buatois, Luis; Orts, Darío; Nielsen, Sven N.; Valencia, Victor V.; Cituño, José; Oliveros, Verónica; De Girolamo Del Mauro, Lizet; Ramos, Víctor A. (2018). "The Late Oligocene–Early Miocene Marine Transgression of Patagonia". In Folguera, A., Contreras Reyes, E., Heredia, N., Encinas, A., B. Iannelli, S., Oliveros, V., M. Dávila, F., Collo, G., Giambiagi, L., Maksymowicz, A., Iglesia Llanos, M.P., Turienzo, M., Naipauer, M., Orts, D., D. Litvak, V., Alvarez, O., Arriagada, C. The Evolution of the Chilean-Argentinean Andes. Springer. pp. 443–474. ISBN 978-3-319-67774-3.
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