Cerro Toro

Cerro Toro is a Cretaceous landform of the Magallanes Foreland the Patagonian region of southeastern Chile.^[1][2] The Cerro Toro is an element of the southern Andes Mountain Range. The Andes fundamentally are the result of plate tectonics processes, caused by the subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath the South American plate. The formation of the Cerro Toro began in the Jurassic Period. The Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument is situated on the southern flank of Cerro Benitez associated with the Cerro Toro formation.^[3]

See also

• Eberhard Fjord
• Magallanes Basin
• Silla del Diablo

References

• C. Michael Hogan (2008) Cueva del Milodon, The Megalithic Portal, ed. A. Burnham [1]
• 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
• 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
• Víctor A. Ramos and J. Duncan Keppie (1999) Laurentia-Gondwana Connections Before Pangea, Geological Society of America ISBN 0813723361

Line notes

1. ^ V.A.Ramos, 1999
2. ^ S.M.Hubbard, 2008
3. ^ C.M.Hogan, 2008

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