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Pan de Azúcar Formation

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Thickness
  
700 m

Overlies
  
Cifuncho Formation

Country
  
Underlies
  
Primary
  
Sandstone, Tuff, Mudstone, Limestone

Pan de Azúcar Formation (Spanish: Formación Pan de Azúcar, Sugar-loaf formation) is a geologic formation of HettangianSinemurian (Jurassic) age made up of chiefly by sandstone, tuff, mudstone and limestone. The formation is located in the Coast Range of northern Chile. The formation interdigitates and is coeval with the Posada de los Hidalgo Formation. It concordantly overlies the Cifuncho Formation and is overlain by the La Negra Formation.

At least one location the formation is intruded by a roughly coeval dacite dyke which adds to the evidence that the formation was coeval with the early stages of "Andean" volcanism.

References

Pan de Azúcar Formation Wikipedia


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