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Chucal Formation | |
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Stratigraphic range: Miocene
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Type | Geological formation |
Overlies | Lupica Formation |
Location | |
Region | Arica y Parinacota Region |
Country | Chile |
Chucal Formation (Spanish: Formación Chucal) is a volcano-sedimentary geological formation in the Andes of Arica y Parinacota Region in northernmost Chile. Sediments of the formation deposited sometime during the Miocene epoch (23 to 5 million years ago) and represent fluvial and lacustrine environments.[1] It overlies Lupica Formation.[1]