Moquegua Basin is a sedimentary basin in southernmost Peru. Sedimentary rocks of the basin, including those of Moquegua Group,[1] crop out in the Central Depression makes up part of the sedimenty fill of the basin.[2] The basement of the basin is made of rocks older than the Cenozoic.[2]

Moquegua Basin
Cuenca Moquegua
Map showing the location of Moquegua Basin
Map showing the location of Moquegua Basin
Coordinates16°48′S 70°48′W / 16.800°S 70.800°W / -16.800; -70.800
EtymologyCity of Moquegua, Peru
LocationWestern South America
Country Peru
State(s)Department of Moquegua
CitiesMoquegua
Characteristics
On/OffshoreOnshore
Part ofCircum-Pacific forearc basins
Hydrology
Sea(s)Eastern Pacific Ocean
River(s)Osmore River
Geology
Basin typeForearc basin
OrogenyAndean
AgeCenozoic

Despite being close to the Pacific Ocean Moquegua Basin appear to have been unaffected by the Oligo-Miocene marine transgression that affected many other basins of western South America such as nearby Pisco Basin.[3] Concurrent with Andean uplift it is thought that the basin went from having a “balanced basin-fill” between Oligocene and Middle Miocene having a “overfilled basin-fill” from the Middle Miocene to the present.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Alván, Aldo; Ramírez, Katerine; von Eynatten, Hilmar; Dunkl, István; Jacay, Javier; Bertone, Gabriela (2017). "Evolución Geológica de las Cuencas de Antearco del Sur de Perú (Moquegua y Camaná-Mollendo): Proveniencia Sedimentaria y Análisis de Facies en Rocas Cenozoicas". Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica del Perú (in Spanish). 112: 053–077.
  2. ^ a b Salazar, Esteban; Bustamante, Yacory F.; Sánchez, Elvis A.; Mamani, Mirian I. (2020). "Arquitectura estratigráfica, paleogeografía y proveniencia sedimentaria de las rocas cenozoicas del sur de Perú (Tacna, 18° S)". Andean Geology. 47 (2). National Geology and Mining Service: 351–383. doi:10.5027/andgeoV47n2-3131.
  3. ^ Macharé, José; Devries, Thomas; Barron, John; Fourtanier, Élisabeth (1988). "Oligo-Miocene transgression along the Pacifie margin of South America: new paleontological and geological evidence from the Pisco basin (Peru)" (PDF). Geódynamique. 3 (1–2): 25–37. Retrieved 2020-03-09.