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      Analisis del grupo Choiyoi (permotriásico), cordillera frontal de Calingasta, provincia de San Juan Translated title: Analysis of the Choiyoi Group (Permian-Triassic), Cordillera Frontal of Calingasta, Province of San Juan

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          Se caracterizan las litofacies integrantes de una sucesión lávico-piroclástica aflorante en la localidad La Alumbrera, Cordillera Frontal (Calingasta, provincia de San Juan). Las mismas corresponden a las Formaciones Vega de Los Machos y El Palque, unidades que materializan al magmatismo gondwánico permo-triásico del Grupo Choiyoi. Las facies reconocidas se han agrupado en: (A) brechas líticas masivas matriz-sostenidas; (B) brechas líticas clasto-sostenidas; (C) ignimbritas y (D) tobas estratificadas. A partir de su análisis se concluye que los grupos definidos pueden ser interpretados como generados por procesos de flujos de bloques y cenizas (facies A), brechamiento autoclástico en flujos lávicos (facies B), flujos piroclásticos pumíceos (facies C) y lluvias de cenizas (facies D). Desde el punto de vista evolutivo, composicionalmente, se observa de base a techo de la sucesión un cambio desde términos andesíticos a riolíticos. Se reconocen tres eventos volcánicos, el primero corresponde a la extrusión de espesas coladas lávicas representadas por las andesitas y dacitas de la Formación Vega de Los Machos. Manteniendo el estilo eruptivo efusivo, el segundo evento involucraría un cambio composicional, materializado por los mantos de riolitas de la Formación El Palque que se sobreponen en aparente concordancia sobre una superficie irregular. El tercer evento involucra la participación de erupciones explosivas relacionadas a las potentes acumulaciones piroclásticas ubicadas en la parte superior de la Formación El Palque.

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          This paper deals with the study of pyroclastic facies associated to interbedded clastic rocks and mesosilicic volcanic igneous rocks cropping out in the Frontal Cordillera, on both margins of the Calingasta River, in the San Juan Province of Argentina. These rocks are ascribed to the Choyoi Group, a volcanic, pyroclastic and clastic complex, assigned to Early Permian - Middle Triassic interval. Interpreted facies can be grouped in four categories: A) massive lithic breccias; B) autoclastic volcanic breccias; C) ignimbrites; D) stratified tuffs. Facies A are deposited by the action of block and ash flows, whereas facies B represent autoclastic brecciation processes in lavas. Facies C was the result of deposition from pumice-rich pyroclastic flows. Finally, facies D rocks represent deposits from ash fallout. Compositionally, there is a change from andesitic volcanism at the basal levels of the sequence, to rhyolitic volcanism at the top. Three main volcanic events are distinguished, the first one being represented by the discharge of andesitic lavas, the second one by effusion of rhyolitic lavas over a paleorelief, and the third, by the explosive eruption of vesiculated siliceous magma driving to the deposition of very thick ignimbrite sheets.

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                Author and article information

                Journal
                raga
                Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina
                Rev. Asoc. Geol. Argent.
                Asociación Geológica Argentina (Buenos Aires, , Argentina )
                0004-4822
                1851-8249
                March 2010
                : 66
                : 1-2
                : 238-252
                Affiliations
                [01] San Juan orgnameUniversidad Nacional de San Juan orgdiv1Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales orgdiv2Departamento de Geología
                Article
                S0004-48222010000100022 S0004-4822(10)06600100022
                cbc46f4b-0c51-474a-a987-71d680ae886f

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 14 October 2009
                : 15 December 2009
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 42, Pages: 15
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                Pyroclastic and volcanic facies,Cordillera Frontal,Choiyoi,Formación El Palque,Frontal Cordillera,El Palque Formation,Facies lávicas y piroclásticas

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