Caleta Godoy Formation

Geological formation in Chile
Caleta Godoy Formation is located in Chile
Caleta Godoy Formation
Caleta Godoy Formation (Chile)

Caleta Godoy Formation (Spanish: Formación Caleta Godoy) is a geological formation whose main outcrops lie around Chacao Channel in southern Chile. The formation overlies Bahía Mansa Metamorphic Complex and Santo Domingo Formation.[1][2]

Description

Caleta Godoy's strata are always found horizontally even in places where the underlying Santo Domingo Formation have its strata tilted 90 degrees (angular unconformity). The formation contains mollusc fossils and ichnofossils of Ophiomorpha and Planolites can be observed. Caleta Godoy Formation was deposited in a shallow marine environment during a small marine transgression different from that associated with Santo Domingo Formation. The formation is analogous to Licancheu and Tubul Formation found further north.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Valenzuela Ayala, Eduardo (1982). "Estratigrafía de la Boca Occidental del Canal de Chacao, X Región, Chile". Congreso Geológico Chileno (in Spanish). Vol. 3, Actas. pp. A343–A376.
  2. ^ a b Encinas, Alfonso; Finger, Kenneth L.; Buatois, Luis A.; Peterson, Dawn E. (2012), "Major forearc subsidence and deep-marine Miocene sedimentation in the present Coastal Cordillera and Longitudinal Depression of south-central Chile (38°30'–41°45'S)", Geological Society of America Bulletin, 124 (7–8): 1262–1277, doi:10.1130/b30567.1, hdl:10533/135235
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