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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 ...
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 ...
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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 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 ]
Toggle By drainage basin subsection. 2.1 La Plata Basin. 2.2 Atlantic Ocean - Patagonia. 2.3 Pacific Ocean (Argentina ... A map of Argentina's river drainage basins.
The basin borders to the west with the Río Chico-Dungeness High that separates it from the Magallanes Basin. [1] The southern boundary is formed by the Scotia plate boundary. [2] Contrary to the neighbouring North Falkland and Magallanes Basins, the Malvinas Basin is not known to have commercial hydrocarbon reserves. [3]
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.