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Abstract:

The Cretaceous deposits of the Southern Peten Basin, an oil-producing province, are located to the south of the Yucatan Platform and to the east of the Chiapas Carbonate Platform of Mexico. The succession in the southern part of this basin has been studied both in wells and at outcrop by microfacies analysis. It is composed of 5000 m of shallow marine carbonates and evaporites with a few thin layers of pelagic limestones rich in organic carbon and planktic foraminifera deposited during peak transgressions or maximum flooding. The sedimentation of this thick succession was not continuous, and the section is punctuated by subaerial erosional bounding surfaces and a single hardground which marks the final drowning of the carbonate platform during the late Maastrichtian. New age determinations have been obtained on the basis of planktic and benthic foraminifera from the Aptian to Santonian Coban Formation, D, C, B and A Members. Coban C (Albian) and B (Cenomanian) Members are the present oil reservoirs. The rudist and alveolinid limestones of late Campanian and Maastrichtian age referred to the Campur Formation in the Southern Peten Basin are here reassigned to the Angostura Formation, as recognized in the Chiapas area. The Actela Formation is defined here to encompass the limestone breccia deposits that occur at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary and extend into the Parvularugoglobigerina eugubina Zone of early Danian age. The D, C, B and A Members of the Coban Formation and the Angostura Formation represent second order transgressive and regressive trends in a passive margin area where the deposits indicate a succession of various environments, including fluviatile, salinas, shallow marine carbonate platform, outer shelf and intrashelf basin. High subsidence rates, sea-level changes and tectonic uplift controlled the sedimentation.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Cretaceous stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of the Southern Peten Basin, Guatemala
Autor:Fourcade, E.; Piccioni, L.; Escribá, J.; Rosselo, E.
Filiación:Laboratoire de Stratigraphie, Case 117, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie et CNRS, 4, Place Jussieu, 75252, Paris, France
Cia. General de Combustible SA, Div. Exploracion y Explotacion, Alicia Moreau de Justo 400, 1107, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cia. General de Combustible SA, Succursal Guatemala, zona 10, Edificio Atlantis, Guatemala, 01010, Guatemala
Depto. de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, 148, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Palabras clave:Carbonate; Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary; Evaporite; Guatemala; Lithostratigraphy; Peten; carbonate; Cretaceous; Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary; evaporite; paleoenvironment; stratigraphy; Guatemala; Peten Basin; Albia; Alveolinidae; Angostura; Foraminifera; Parvularugoglobigerina; Parvularugoglobigerina eugubina
Año:1999
Volumen:20
Número:6
Página de inicio:793
Página de fin:811
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/cres.1999.0184
Título revista:Cretaceous Research
Título revista abreviado:Cretaceous Res.
ISSN:01956671
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_01956671_v20_n6_p793_Fourcade

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Fourcade, E., Piccioni, L., Escribá, J. & Rosselo, E. (1999) . Cretaceous stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of the Southern Peten Basin, Guatemala. Cretaceous Research, 20(6), 793-811.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/cres.1999.0184
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Fourcade, E., Piccioni, L., Escribá, J., Rosselo, E. "Cretaceous stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of the Southern Peten Basin, Guatemala" . Cretaceous Research 20, no. 6 (1999) : 793-811.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/cres.1999.0184
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Fourcade, E., Piccioni, L., Escribá, J., Rosselo, E. "Cretaceous stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of the Southern Peten Basin, Guatemala" . Cretaceous Research, vol. 20, no. 6, 1999, pp. 793-811.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/cres.1999.0184
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Fourcade, E., Piccioni, L., Escribá, J., Rosselo, E. Cretaceous stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of the Southern Peten Basin, Guatemala. Cretaceous Res. 1999;20(6):793-811.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/cres.1999.0184