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      Estudio sedimentológico-estratigráfico de la Sierra Las Lilas (Paleozoico) y Sierra El Cartucho (Mesozoico) en la porción noroccidental del Estado de Chihuahua, México (Distrito Minero de Bismark) Translated title: Sedimentological-stratigraphical study of Sierra Las Lilas (Paleozoic) and Sierra El Cartucho (Mesozoic) in northwestern Chihuahua State, Mexico (Bismark mine district)

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          RESUMEN En los alrededores del distrito minero de Bismark afloran rocas sedimentarias pertenecientes a dos secuencias estratigráficas diferentes. Una secuencia paleozoica regresiva está representada por la Formación La Concha, compuesta por dolomías delgadas hasta masivas y por la Formación Santa Rita que comprende una intercalación de areniscas y dolomías, ambas con edades del Pérmico Inferior. Tanto la fauna como la litología de ambas formaciones sugieren un ambiente inicial marino somero en forma de plataforma carbonatada tipo rampa, el cual cambia transicionalmente a un ambiente con claro dominio terrígeno continental. Los depósitos pérmicos representan la cobertura sedimentaria depositada sobre el cratón Norteamericano del Terreno Chihuahua. La secuencia sedimentaria mesozoica se compone exclusivamente de rocas del Cretácico Inferior e incluye (1) una secuencia con fauna neocomiana; (2) la Formación Cuchillo del Aptiano-Albiano inferior; (3) la Formación Benigno del Albiano, correlacionable con la parte media de la Formación U-Bar de Nuevo México; y (4) la parte superior de la Formación U-Bar. Esta secuencia evidencia una tendencia transgresiva pasando de una sedimentación marina con influencia de terrígenos finos (Neocomiano-Aptiano) hasta un ambiente marino de aguas someras en una plataforma carbonatada con depósito de floatstones hasta boundstones en construcciones arrecifales locales (Albiano inferior). Este dominio carbonatado cambió a finales del Albiano y fue reemplazado por sedimentación en una zona continental - marino marginal. Tanto la fauna como la litología de las secuencias sedimentarias mesozoicas demuestran que el depósito marino comenzó en esta porción del noroeste de Chihuahua durante el Neocomiano en una zona paleogeográfica afín a la Cuenca de Chihuahua y al margen norte de la Plataforma de Aldama.

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          ABSTRACT Sedimentary rocks belonging to two different stratigraphic sequences of Paleozoic and Mesozoic age are exposed in the vicinity of the Bismark mining district. The regressive Paleozoic sequence of Early Permian age is represented by La Concha Formation, composed of thin to massive dolomites, and the Santa Rita Formation, which includes interbedded sandstones and dolomites. The fauna and the lithology of both formations suggest an initial marine shallow environment in a carbonate ramp-type platform, which changed transitionally to an environment with clear continental siliclastic influence. The Permian deposits represent the sedimentary cover deposited on the North American craton of the Chihuahua terrane. The Mesozoic sedimentary sequence consists exclusively of Lower Cretaceous rocks and includes (1) a sequence with Neocomian fauna; (2) the Aptian - lower Albian Cuchillo Formation; (3) the Albian Benigno Formation, which correlates with the middle part of the U-Bar Formation from New Mexico; and the upper part of the U-Bar Formation. These formations demonstrate a transgressive trend ranging from marginal-marine sedimentation containing fine grained terrigenous detritus (Neocomian-Aptian) to a shallow marine water environment with deposition of floatstones and boundstones in a carbonate platform with local reef buildups (lower Albian). This carbonate domain changed at the end of the Albian age and was replaced by sedimentation in a marginal marine-continental environment. The fauna and the lithology of the Mesozoic sedimentary sequences show that the marine deposition began in this part of northwestern Chihuahua in the Neocomian in a paleogeographic zone related to the Chihuahua trough and the northern margin of the Aldama platform.

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                Journal
                rmcg
                Revista mexicana de ciencias geológicas
                Rev. mex. cienc. geol
                Instituto de Geología, UNAM (México, DF, Mexico )
                1026-8774
                2007-2902
                2005
                : 22
                : 3
                : 298-314
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                [1] San Luís Potosí orgnameUniversidad Autónoma de San Luís Potosí orgdiv1Instituto de Geología Mexico rlopez@ 123456uaslp.mx
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                S1026-87742005000300298
                3c3d27c4-6edf-4efd-887d-619a18e0dc05

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                : 27 February 2005
                : 20 June 2005
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                Mexico,Chihuahua,Creteceous,Permian,sedimentology,stratigraphy,México,Cretácico,Pérmico,sedimentología,estratigrafía

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