Creator

Louise D. Hose

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Publication Date

March 1981

Type

Thesis

Abstract

Sistema Purificación, a large cave system in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental of northeastern Mexico, is developed in the Tamaulipas and Tamabra Formations, a sequence of middle Cretaceous carbonates about 400 meters thick. The formations formed in a basinal to periplatform environment near the Platforma Valles-San Luis Potosí, a large carbonate platform simultaneously developing to the south and southwest. The Tamaulipas Formation is strategically underlain by shaly limestone, shale, sandstone, and conglomerate of the Early Cretaceous Taraises, the Late Jurassic La Caja, and the Late Jurassic La Joya Formations.

Institution

California State University, Los Angeles

Keywords

Geology

Geographic Location

Mexico

Language

English

Identifier

K26-04351

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