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Huincul Fault, the Glossary

Index Huincul Fault

The Huincul Fault or Huincul Fault Zone (Falla de Huincul, Zona de falla Huincul) is an east-to-west-oriented, continental-scale fault that extends from the Neuquén Basin eastwards into the Argentine Shelf.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 29 relations: Albian, Basement high, Cauchy stress tensor, Chilean Coast Range, Extensional tectonics, Farallon Plate, Fault (geology), Gondwana, Half-graben, Hydrocarbon exploration, Inversion (geology), Late Miocene, Nazca Plate, Neuquén Basin, Pampean orogeny, Patagonian Shelf, Plate tectonics, Pliocene, Pull-apart basin, Río Negro (Argentina), Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, Sinistral and dextral, South American Plate, Structural geology, Subduction, Suture (geology), Tectonic evolution of Patagonia, Toarcian, Valanginian.

  2. Geology of Araucanía Region
  3. Geology of Buenos Aires Province
  4. Geology of La Pampa Province
  5. Geology of Neuquén Province
  6. Geology of Río Negro Province
  7. Seismic faults of Argentina
  8. Seismic faults of Chile
  9. Suture zones

Albian

The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column.

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Basement high

In geology, a basement high is a portion of the basement in a sedimentary basin that is higher than its surroundings.

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Cauchy stress tensor

In continuum mechanics, the Cauchy stress tensor (symbol \boldsymbol\sigma, named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy), also called true stress tensor or simply stress tensor, completely defines the state of stress at a point inside a material in the deformed state, placement, or configuration.

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Chilean Coast Range

The Chilean Coastal Range (Cordillera de la Costa) is a mountain range that runs from north to south along the Pacific coast of South America parallel to the Andean Mountains, extending from Morro de Arica in the north to Taitao Peninsula, where it ends at the Chile Triple Junction, in the south.

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Extensional tectonics

Extensional tectonics is concerned with the structures formed by, and the tectonic processes associated with, the stretching of a planetary body's crust or lithosphere.

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Farallon Plate

The Farallon Plate was an ancient oceanic tectonic plate.

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Fault (geology)

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.

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Gondwana

Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.

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Half-graben

A half-graben is a geological structure bounded by a fault along one side of its boundaries, unlike a full graben where a depressed block of land is bordered by parallel faults.

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Hydrocarbon exploration

Hydrocarbon exploration (or oil and gas exploration) is the search by petroleum geologists and geophysicists for deposits of hydrocarbons, particularly petroleum and natural gas, in the Earth's crust using petroleum geology.

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Inversion (geology)

In structural geology, inversion or basin inversion relates to the relative uplift of a sedimentary basin or as a result of crustal shortening.

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Late Miocene

The Late Miocene (also known as Upper Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages.

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Nazca Plate

The Nazca Plate or Nasca Plate, named after the Nazca region of southern Peru, is an oceanic tectonic plate in the eastern Pacific Ocean basin off the west coast of South America.

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Neuquén Basin

Neuquén Basin (Cuenca Neuquina) is a sedimentary basin covering most of Neuquén Province in Argentina. Huincul Fault and Neuquén Basin are geology of Araucanía Region, geology of La Pampa Province, geology of Neuquén Province and geology of Río Negro Province.

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Pampean orogeny

The Pampean orogeny (orogenia pampeana) was an orogeny active in the Cambrian in the western margin of the ancient landmass of Gondwana.

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Patagonian Shelf

The Patagonian (sometimes referred to as Argentine) Shelf is part of the South American continental shelf belonging to the Argentine Sea on the Atlantic seaboard, south of about 35°S.

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Plate tectonics

Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.

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Pull-apart basin

In geology, a basin is a region where subsidence generates accommodation space for the deposition of sediments.

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Río Negro (Argentina)

Río Negro (Black River) is the main river of Patagonia in terms of the size of its drainage basin, its associated agricultural produce and population living at its shores.

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Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina

The Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina is an open access peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Asociación Geológica Argentina.

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Sinistral and dextral

Sinistral and dextral, in some scientific fields, are the two types of chirality ("handedness") or relative direction.

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South American Plate

The South American Plate is a major tectonic plate which includes the continent of South America as well as a sizable region of the Atlantic Ocean seabed extending eastward to the African Plate, with which it forms the southern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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Structural geology

Structural geology is the study of the three-dimensional distribution of rock units with respect to their deformational histories.

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Subduction

Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.

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Suture (geology)

In structural geology, a suture is a joining along a major fault zone, of separate terranes, tectonic units that have different plate tectonic, metamorphic and paleogeographic histories. Huincul Fault and suture (geology) are suture zones.

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Tectonic evolution of Patagonia

Patagonia comprises the southernmost region of South America, portions of which lie on either side of the Argentina-Chile border.

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Toarcian

The Toarcian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, an age and stage in the Early or Lower Jurassic.

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Valanginian

In the geologic timescale, the Valanginian is an age or stage of the Early or Lower Cretaceous.

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See also

Geology of Araucanía Region

Geology of Buenos Aires Province

Geology of La Pampa Province

Geology of Neuquén Province

Geology of Río Negro Province

Seismic faults of Argentina

Seismic faults of Chile

Suture zones

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huincul_Fault

Also known as Dorsal de Huincul, Huincul basement high.