• Source: Los Molles Formation

The Los Molles Formation is a geologic formation of Early to Middle Jurassic age, located at northern and central part of Neuquén Basin at Mendoza Shelf in Argentina. It is overlain by the Niyeu–Lajas Formation.




Description



It is the second largest oil and gas formation in the Neuquén Basin after the Vaca Muerta. Los Molles Formation is estimated to have 275 trillion cubic feet (7.8×10^12 m3) of technically recoverable shale gas and 3.7 billion barrels (590,000,000 m3) of technically recoverable oil. In July 2015, the Buenos Aires Herald indicated that Pan American Energy and YPF planned to drill 46 shale gas wells in Los Molles over the next four years in their Lindero Atravesado drilling block, at an estimated cost of US$590 million.




Fossil content


In several outcrops, the Los Molles formation has been the site of paleontological discoveries: the ichthyosaurs Chacaicosaurus and Mollesaurus, the rhomaleosaurid plesiosaur Maresaurus, and, in 2017, an stegosaurian ornithischian, Isaberrysaura, discovered with fossilized contents of the gut.




See also


Vaca Muerta
List of dinosaur bearing rock formations
Toarcian turnover
Toarcian formations
Marne di Monte Serrone, Italy
Calcare di Sogno, Italy
El Pedregal Formation, Spain
Sachrang Formation, Austria
Posidonia Shale, Lagerstätte in Germany
Ciechocinek Formation, Germany and Poland
Krempachy Marl Formation, Poland and Slovakia
Lava Formation, Lithuania
Azilal Group, North Africa
Whitby Mudstone, England
Fernie Formation, Alberta and British Columbia
Poker Chip Shale
Whiteaves Formation, British Columbia
Navajo Sandstone, Utah
Mawson Formation, Antarctica
Kandreho Formation, Madagascar
Kota Formation, India
Cattamarra Coal Measures, Australia




References






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McIlroy, Duncan; Flint, Stephen; Howell, John A.; Timms, Nick (2005), The Neuquén Basin, Argentina: A Case Study in Sequence Stratigraphy and Basin Dynamics - Sedimentology of the tide-dominated Jurassic Lajas Formation, Neuquén Basin, Argentina, Geological Society of London, p. 84, ISBN 9781862391901, retrieved 2019-02-16
Salgado, Leonardo; Canudo, José I.; Garrido, Alberto C.; Moreno Azanza, Miguel; Martínez, Leandro C. A.; Coria, Rodolfo A.; Gasca, José M. (2017), "A new primitive Neornithischian dinosaur from the Jurassic of Patagonia with gut contents", Scientific Reports, 7: 42778, Bibcode:2017NatSR...742778S, doi:10.1038/srep42778, PMC 5311864, PMID 28202910, retrieved 2019-02-16
Various, Authors (2013), Technically Recoverable Shale Oil and Shale Gas Resources: An Assessment of 137 Shale Formations in 41 Countries Outside the United States (PDF), U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), pp. _, retrieved 2013-06-11

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Los Molles Formation
• Vaca Muerta
• Isaberrysaura
• Maresaurus
• Molles (disambiguation)
• Mollesaurus
• Figueroa Sulfide
• Chacaicosaurus
• Marne de Flize
• Plesiosaur