Identification of the area immediately affected by outburst flood of the Laguna Navarrete, Province of Neuquén (36°30'S-71°W).

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Ivanna M. Penna
Reginald L. Hermanns
Andrés Folguera

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Considering the high concentration of rock avalanches in the northern part of the Neuquén province of Argentina (36°-38°S and 70°-71°W) and their association with lacustrine basins forming natural dams, their catastrophic collapse seems not to be such a common process as could be expected for these cases. The present work depicts the area immediately affected by the outburst flood corresponding to the Navarrete dam catastrophic collapse (175 x 106 m3), through a sedimentological analysis, generated since the arroyo Colorado was blocked due to a rock avalanche deposit during not well constrained postglacial times. The outburst flood dispersion is initially inferred based on morphological criteria and then determined from a sedimentological analysis of its matrix. Furthermore, the matrix is compared to that of the fluvial terraces, which have been sampled along the arroyo Colorado. This comparison shows that even though differences among them are not so significant through most of the study area, matrix frequency starts to be distinctive from the most distant point of sampling.

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Penna, I. M., Hermanns, R. L., & Folguera, A. (2007). Identification of the area immediately affected by outburst flood of the Laguna Navarrete, Province of Neuquén (36°30’S-71°W). Revista De La Asociación Geológica Argentina, 62(3), 460-466. Retrieved from https://revista.geologica.org.ar/raga/article/view/1090
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