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The basin stretches across a small area in northeastern San Juan Province and southwestern La Rioja Province in northwestern Argentina. The basin is bound by the Valle Fértil Fault to the west, separating the basin from the Precordillera, and the El Alto Fault in the southeast, forming the boundary with the Marayes-El Carrizal Basin.
The Argentine Basin is a region of the Atlantic Ocean floor off the east coast of Argentina, between the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to the east and the Scotia Basin to the west. To the north is the Brazil Basin, with the two basins being separated by the Rio Grande Rise. The southern edge of the Argentine Basin is formed by the Falklands/Malvinas ...
The Neuquén Basin is an important oil and gas producing basin in Argentina. Production started in 1918 and accumulated to 928 thousand cubic metres (5.84 million barrels) of oil equivalent in 2004, representing 45% of the oil production in Argentina and 61% of its gas production. [ 40 ]
A map of Argentina's river drainage basins. This list is arranged by drainage basin , with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Rivers in the table above are in bold.
As the breakup of Gondwana began, narrow half-grabens filled with volcaniclastic rocks and the Pampa de Agnia Basin formed along the Gastre fault system. The Magallenes Basin experienced rifting and the Chon Aike province witnessed intraplate volcanism during the acceleration of the breakup around 180 to 165 million years ago, as the Weddell ...
Salta Basin or Salta Rift Basin is a sedimentary basin located in the Argentine Northwest. [1] [2] The basin started to accumulate sediments in the Early Cretaceous and at present it has sedimentary deposits reaching thicknesses of 5,000 metres (16,000 ft). The basin contains seven sub-basins: Tres Cruces, Lomas de Olmedo, Metán, Alemanía ...
Luján River, marking the northern limit of urban Buenos Aires. The Luján River (Spanish, Río Luján [1]) runs from its source near Espora about 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to its outflow into the Río de la Plata north of the city.
The Colorado Basin (Spanish: Cuenca del Colorado) is a sedimentary basin located in northeastern Patagonia.The basin stretches across an area of approximately 180,000 square kilometres (69,000 sq mi), of which 37,000 square kilometres (14,000 sq mi) onshore in the southern Buenos Aires Province and the easternmost Río Negro Province extending offshore in the South Atlantic Ocean.