Sedimentología e icnología del intervalo medio de la Formación Agua del Jagüel, Carbonífero de la Precordillera de Mendoza: implicancias paleoambientales de la transgresión postglacial

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Pablo J Alonso-Muruaga
Carlos O Limarino
Luis A Buatois
Cecilia A Pirrone

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Se describen las características paleoambientales e icnológicas del tramo medio de la Formación Agua del Jagüel (Carbonífero, Precordillera de Mendoza). Fueron reconocidas cinco facies agrupadas en tres asociaciones de facies sedimentarias, las que caracterizan la evolución de un sistema fluvio-estuarino. La asociación de facies 1, formada por conglomerados y areniscas conglomerádicas de origen fluvial, se dispone sobre una superficie erosiva que los separa de niveles postglaciales correspondientes a la parte basal de la Formación Agua de Jagüel. La asociación de facies 2 incluye en su base a depósitos finos (fangolitas) que indican la inundación del sistema, seguida por sedimentación arenosa correspondiente a ambientes de boca de estuario indicando una progresiva transgresión dentro del estuario. La asociación de facies 3 corresponde a dos intervalos de areniscas muy gruesas fluviales, separados por areniscas muy finas y fangolitas depositadas durante un breve evento transgresivo. Paralelamente a los estudios sedimentológicos se analizaron las estructuras biogénicas provenientes de fangolitas y areniscas muy finas a finas de la facies 2. Las trazas fósiles reconocidas incluyen a Cochlichnus anguineus, Gordia marina, Helminthoidichnites tenuis, Helminthopsis tenuis, Mermia carickensis, ?Treptichnus bifurcus,?T. pollardi, y trazas en rosario. Esta asociación icnológica muestra moderada diversidad y baja icnodisparidad que sugieren condiciones de estrés ambiental, probablemente vinculadas a importantes fluctuaciones de salinidad dentro del estuario. La presencia de la icnofacies de Mermia en estos depósitos es una nueva evidencia de que los sistemas depositacionales marino marginales postglaciales estuvieron fuertemente afectados por significativas descargas de agua dulce al producirse la deglaciación del Paleozoico tardío. 

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Alonso-Muruaga, P. J., Limarino, C. O., Buatois, L. A., & Pirrone, C. A. (2020). Sedimentología e icnología del intervalo medio de la Formación Agua del Jagüel, Carbonífero de la Precordillera de Mendoza: implicancias paleoambientales de la transgresión postglacial. Revista De La Asociación Geológica Argentina, 77(3), 427-446. Retrieved from https://revista.geologica.org.ar/raga/article/view/219
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