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38 relations: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Andean foreland basins, Andean orogeny, Andean Volcanic Belt, Argentina, Bariloche, Colorado River (Argentina), Cretaceous, Cuyo Archipelago, Deformation (mechanics), Eocene, Fault (geology), Fold and thrust belt, Foreland basin, Half-graben, Holocene, Huincul Fault, Hydrocarbon exploration, Inversion (geology), Jurassic, Los Molles Formation, Marine regression, Marine transgression, Maturity (geology), Neuquén, Neuquén Province, North Patagonian Massif, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Río Negro (Argentina), Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina, Sedimentary basin, South American Plate, Structural geology, Tertiary, Vaca Muerta, Víctor Alberto Ramos, Vitrinite.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) is one of the world's largest professional geological societies with more than 35,000 members as of 2017.
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Andean foreland basins
The Andean foreland basins or Sub-Andean basins are a group of foreland basins located in the western half of South America immediately east of the Andes mountains.
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Andean orogeny
The Andean orogeny (Orogenia andina) is an ongoing process of orogeny that began in the Early Jurassic and is responsible for the rise of the Andes mountains.
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Andean Volcanic Belt
The Andean Volcanic Belt is a major volcanic belt along the Andean cordillera in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.
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Bariloche
San Carlos de Bariloche, usually known as Bariloche, is a city in the province of Río Negro, Argentina, situated in the foothills of the Andes on the southern shores of Nahuel Huapi Lake.
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Colorado River (Argentina)
The Colorado River (Río Colorado) is a river in the south of Argentina.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.
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Cuyo Archipelago
The Cuyo Archipelago or Cuyo Islands, is a group of about 45 islands lying to the northeast of the Philippines island of Palawan.
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Deformation (mechanics)
Deformation in continuum mechanics is the transformation of a body from a reference configuration to a current configuration.
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Eocene
The Eocene Epoch, lasting from, is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era.
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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 movement.
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Fold and thrust belt
A fold and thrust belt is a series of mountainous foothills adjacent to an orogenic belt, which forms due to contractional tectonics.
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Foreland basin
A foreland basin is a structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt.
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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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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch.
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Huincul Fault
The Huincul Fault or Huincul Fault Zone (Falla de Huincul, Zona de falla Huincul) is an east-west oriented continental-scale fault that extends from the Neuquén Basin eastwards into the Argentine Shelf.
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Hydrocarbon exploration
Hydrocarbon exploration (or oil and gas exploration) is the search by petroleum geologists and geophysicists for hydrocarbon deposits beneath the Earth's surface, such as oil and natural gas.
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Inversion (geology)
In structural geology inversion or basin inversion relates to the relative uplift of a sedimentary basin or similar structure as a result of crustal shortening.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.
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Los Molles Formation
The Los Molles Formation is a geologic formation of Early Jurassic age, located at northern and central part of Neuquén Basin at Mendoza Shelf in Argentina.
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Marine regression
Marine regression is a geological process occurring when areas of submerged seafloor are exposed above the sea level.
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Marine transgression
A marine transgression is a geologic event during which sea level rises relative to the land and the shoreline moves toward higher ground, resulting in flooding.
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Maturity (geology)
In petroleum geology, the maturity of a rock is a measure of its state in terms of hydrocarbon generation.
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Neuquén
Neuquén is the capital city of the Argentine province of Neuquén and of the Confluencia Department, located in the east of the province.
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Neuquén Province
Neuquén is a province of Argentina, located in the west of the country, at the northern end of Patagonia.
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North Patagonian Massif
The North Patagonian Massif or Somún Cura Massif (Spanish: Macizo Norpatagónico, Macizo Nordpatagónico or Macizo de Somún Cura) is a massif in northern Patagonia located in the Argentine provinces of Río Negro and Chubut.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.
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Río Negro (Argentina)
Río Negro (Black River) is the most important river of the Argentine province of Río Negro.
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Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina
The Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Asociación Geológica Argentina.
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Sedimentary basin
Sedimentary basins are regions of Earth of long-term subsidence creating accommodation space for infilling by sediments.
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South American Plate
The South American Plate is a tectonic plate which includes the continent of South America and also a sizeable region of the Atlantic Ocean seabed extending eastward to the African Plate creating the Mid-Atlantic Ridge The easterly side is a divergent boundary with the African Plate forming 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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Tertiary
Tertiary is the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago, a timespan that occurs between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary.
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Vaca Muerta
Vaca Muerta (in Spanish Dead Cow) is a geologic formation of Jurassic and Cretaceous age, located at Neuquén Basin in Argentina.
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Víctor Alberto Ramos
Víctor Alberto Ramos (born 1945) is an Argentine geologist who has contributed to the paleogeography and plate tectonics of South America.
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Vitrinite
Vitrinite is one of the primary components of coals and most sedimentary kerogens.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuquén_Basin
