Cerro Toro is a
Cretaceous landform
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of the
Magallanes Foreland
Magallanes may refer to:
* Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521), Portuguese explorer who led part of the first expedition around the world
* Strait of Magellan, the strait between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, located in Chile
Places
* Magallanes ...
in the
Patagonian region of southeastern
Chile. The Cerro Toro is an element of the southern
Andes and a product of the
Andean orogeny, caused by the
subduction
Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries. Where the oceanic lithosphere of a tectonic plate converges with the less dense lithosphere of a second plate, the ...
of the
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. The ongoing subduction, along the Peru–Chile Trench, of the Na ...
beneath the
South American Plate
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. The formation of the Cerro Toro began in the
Jurassic. The
Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument
Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument is a Natural Monument located in the Chilean Patagonia, northwest of Puerto Natales and north of Punta Arenas.
The monument is situated along the flanks of Cerro Benitez. It comprises several caves and a ...
is situated on the southern flank of
Cerro Benítez
Cerro Benítez ("Benítez hill") is a mountain in the Patagonian region of Chile. In a larger context this feature is an element of the Cerro Toro geological complex. The Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument is situated on the southern flank of ...
, a lower hill associated with the formation of Cerro Toro.
[Hogan, 2008]
See also
*
Eberhard Fjord
*
Magallanes Basin
*
Silla del Diablo
Silla or Shilla (57 BCE – 935 CE) ( , Old Korean: Syera, Old Japanese: Siraki2) was a Korean kingdom located on the southern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula. Silla, along with Baekje and Goguryeo, formed the Three Kingdoms of K ...
References
Bibliography
C. Michael Hogan (2008) ''Cueva del Milodon'', The Megalithic Portal, ed. A. Burnham* Stephen M. Hubbard, Brian W. Romans and Stephan A. Graham (2008) ''Deep-water foreland basin deposits of the Cerro Toro Formation, Magallanes basin, Chile: architectural elements of a sinuous basin axial channel belt'', Sedimentology, Mar. 2008
*
V.A. Ramos and J. Duncan Keppie (1999) ''Laurentia-Gondwana Connections Before Pangea'', Geological Society of America
Further reading
* Stephen M. Hubbard and Michael R. Shultz, ''Deep Burrows in Submarine Fan-Channel Deposits of the Cerro Toro Formation (Cretaceous), Chilean Patagonia: Implications For Firmground Development and Colonization in the Deep Sea'', Palaios, pp. 223–232
Geology of Chile
Geology of Patagonia
Toro, Cerro
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