The Seca Formation is a
Late Eocene
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(
Divisaderan to
Tinguirirican The Tinguirirican ( es, Tinguiririquense) age is a period of geologic time (36.0–29.0 Ma) within the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene epochs of the Paleogene, used more specifically within the SALMA classification in South America. It follows th ...
in the
SALMA classification) geologic
formation
Formation may refer to:
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of the
Progreso Basin
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* El P ...
in southwestern
Ecuador
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. The
shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especia ...
s of the formation have provided fossils of the
marine snake ''
Pterosphenus sheppardi''.
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Description
The Seca Formation, part of the
Ancón Group Ancón may refer to:
Places
Antiquity
* Ancon (Picenum), town of ancient Picenum, now in Italy
* Ancon (Pontus), town of ancient Pontus, now in Turkey
Ecuador
*Ancón, Ecuador, a city in Guayas, Ecuador
Panama
*Ancón, Panama, a city in central P ...
, conformably overlies the
Socorro Formation
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Places
* Socorro, São Paulo, a city in São Paulo state, Brazil
* Socorro (district of São Paulo), a district in São Paulo city, Bra ...
and is overlain by the
Punta Ancón Formation. The Seca Formation comprises grey to greenish
shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especia ...
s deposited in a marine platform with submarine fans
environment
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.
[Lorenzo et al., 2018, p.34] The formation is a
reservoir rock
A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations.
Such reservoirs form when kerogen (ancient plant matter) is created in surrounding rock by the presence ...
,
[Lorenzo et al., 2018, p.32] and potential
source rock
In petroleum geology, source rock is rock which has generated hydrocarbons or which could generate hydrocarbons. Source rocks are one of the necessary elements of a working petroleum system. They are organic-rich sediments that may have been deposi ...
,
[Lorenzo et al., 2018, p.31] in the oil-rich Progreso Basin.
See also
*
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ecuador
This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Ecuador.
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See also
*
* Gomphothere fossils in Ecuador
* List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Colombia
* List of fossilife ...
References
Bibliography
* {{cite LSA , last=Lorenzo , first=Erica et al , year=2018 , title=Correlación geoquímica entre crudos y rocas del sistema petrolero de la península de Santa Elena y el golfo de Guayaquil , url=http://www.scielo.org.co/pdf/boge/v40n1/0120-0283-boge-40-01-00031.pdf , journal=
Boletín de Geología
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, volume=40 , pages=31–42 , accessdate=2018-09-11
Further reading
* R.
Hoffstetter. 1958. Un serpent marin du genre ''Pterosphenus'' (Pt. Sheppardi nov. sp.) dans L’Éocène supérieur de L’Équateur (Amérique de Sud). Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 6:45-50
Geologic formations of Ecuador
Paleogene Ecuador
Priabonian Stage
Divisaderan
Tinguirirican
Shale formations
Open marine deposits
Reservoir rock formations
Fossiliferous stratigraphic units of South America
Paleontology in Ecuador
Formations