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The Cancañiri Formation, also named as Cancañiri Tillite, is a Katian to Hirnantian geologic formation of central Bolivia. The pebbly, argillaceous sandstones, shales and siltstones of the up to Шаблон:Convert thick formation,[1] were deposited in a glacial foreshore to deep water turbiditic environment.[2][3][4][5] The formation is named after Cancañiri, a mining town close to Llallagua, where a local legend of a possessed woman is believed.[6] The formation overlies the San Benito Formation in Cochabamba and the Amutara Formation in other parts. The Cancañiri Formation is overlain by the Uncía Formation.[7]

Fossil content

The formation has provided the following fossils: Шаблон:Div col

Шаблон:Div col end

See also

References

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Bibliography

Further reading

  • V. Havlicek and L. Branisa. 1980. Ordovician brachiopods of Bolivia: Succession of assemblages, climate control, affinity to Anglo-French and Bohemian provinces. Rozpravy Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved. Rada Matematickych a Prirodnich Ved. Academia Praha, Prague, Czechoslovakia 90(1):1-54