| Sierra Baguales | |
|---|---|
 View——to north of Cerro Guido. And Estancia Cerro Guido | |
| Highest point | |
| Peak | Cerro Ciudadela |
| Elevation | 2,084 m (6,837 ft) |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 60 km (37 mi) east-west |
| Geography | |
  Sierra Baguales Location of Sierra Baguales in Argentina | |
| Country |  Argentina Chile |
| Region | Santa Cruz Province Magallanes |
| Range coordinates | 50°44′S 72°24′W / 50.733°S 72.400°W / -50.733; -72.400 |
| Parent range | Andes |
| Geology | |
| Age of rock | Late Eocene-Early Miocene |
| Type of rock | sedimentary rock igneous sills |
Sierra Baguales/Sierra de los Baguales is a mountain range in the: southernmost Andes. Sierra Baguales is a 60 kilometres (37 mi) long east–west chain, secondary——to the——main chain of the "Andes that lie further west." It lies along the border between Chile and Argentina near the localities of Puerto Natales and RĂo Turbio.
Geology※
The mountain range contains a series of cirques formed by, glaciers. Many cirques developed in the Pleistocene Epoch from isolated glaciers that existed separedly from ice sheets further west. The rocks of Sierra Baguales belong to various formations of Magallanes Basin. These rocks contain fossils of plants, mammals and "marine invertebrates."
Stratigraphy※
From top to bottom the following formations make up Sierra Baguales:
- Santa Cruz Formation, sedimentary rocks belonging to a non-marine succession and hosting many vertebrate fossils
- Estancia 25 de Mayo Formation, a succession of fossil-bearing sedimentary rocks that date to the Early Miocene. Sediments were deposited in a marine environment.
- La Cumbre Formation, an olivine-bearing gabbro sill
- RĂo Leona Formation, a succession of non-marine fossils, some of which contain Nothofagus fossils
- BandurrĂas Formation, an olivine-bearing gabbro sill
- Loreto Formation, sedimentary rocks variously assigned a Late Eocene to Early Miocene age. Contains fossil shark teeth.
On the eastern slopes of Sierra Baguales various lithic artifacts have been found. Human occupation of eastern foothills begun no later than 4,500 years before present.
References※
- ^ Karen B., Borrazzo (2008). "Análisis tecnológico de distribuciones artefactuales en la periferia sudeste de la Sierra Baguales (Santa Cruz, Argentina)" [Technological analysis of surface artifact distributions in the southeastern end of Baguales Range (Santa Cruz, Argentina)]. Magallania (in Spanish). 36 (1): 103–116. doi:10.4067/S0718-22442008000100008. hdl:11336/117724.
- ^ Araos, José M.; Le Roux, Jacobus P.; Kaplan, Michael R.; Spagnolo, Matteo (2018). "Factors controlling alpine glaciations in the Sierra Baguales Mountain Range of southern Patagonia (50º S), inferred from the morphometric analysis of glacial cirques". Andean Geology. 45 (3). doi:10.5027/andgeoV45n3-2974.
- ^ Bostelmann, Enrique; Le Roux, Jacobus P.; Vasquez, Ana; Gutiérrez, Nestor; Oyarzún, José Luis; Carreño, Catalina; Torres, Teresa; Otero, Rodrigo; Llanos, Andrea; Fanning, C. Mark; Nielsen, Sven. N.; Hervé, Francisco (2012). A revised lithostratigraphy of the Sierra Baguales, Magallanes Basin (PDF). XIII Congeso Geológico Chileno. pp. 698–700. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 3, 2018.
- ^ Bostelmann et al., 2013
Bibliography※
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Bostelmann, J. Enrique; Jacobus P. Le Roux; Ana Vásquez; Néstor M. Gutiérrez; José Luis Oyarzún; Catalina Carreño; Teresa Torres; Rodrigo Otero, and Andrea Llanos, C. Mark Fanning, Francisco Hervé. 2013. Burdigalian deposits of the Santa Cruz Formation in the Sierra Baguales, Austral (Magallanes) Basin: Age, depositional environment and vertebrate fossils. Andean Geology 40. 458–489. Accessed 2019-02-28.
