Salar_de_Antofalla

Salar de Antofalla

Salar de Antofalla

Salt flat in north-western Argentina

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Salar de Antofalla is a salt flat in the Andes of Catamarca Province in the Argentine Northwest. The salt flat contains systems of oncoids that grow in the interface between proper salt flat and an adjacent wetlands.[1] The geology surrounding the southern part of Salar de Antofalla is made up of continental (e.i. non-marine) sedimentary rock that deposited from Late Eocene to Early Pleistocene times.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Villafañe, Patricio Guillermo; Lencina, Agustina Inés; Soria, Mariana; Saona, Luis Alberto; Gómez, Fernado Javier; Alonso, Guido Ezequiel; Farías, María Eugenia (2021-05-01). "Las Quínoas oncoids: a new deposit of microbialites in the Salar de Antofalla (Catamarca, Argentina)". Andean Geology. 48 (2): 281–302. doi:10.5027/andgeoV48n2-3292. hdl:11336/148257.
  2. [2]
    Voss, Reno (2002). "Cenozoic stratigraphy of the southern Salar de Antofalla region, northwestern Argentina". Revista Geológica de Chile (in Spanish). 29 (2): 167–189. doi:10.4067/S0716-02082002000200002.


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