Caracterización del ambiente volcánico y volcano sedimentario de la ruta Tinajillas Carboncillo en el cantón Saraguro

Abstract

Abstract: The TinajillasCarboncillo route is formed in a volcanic and volcanic sedimentary environment, the Jubones Formation, the Duco Unit, the Tambo Pamba Unit and the Río Oña Unit emerge in this route, TinajillasCarboncillo, which is made up of pyroclastic flow deposits, epiclastic flow deposits and falldeposits. These deposited materials come from different possible emission sources that have been identified through the analysis of satellite images and with the help of the directions of the flows observed in the field, according to the Instituto de Investigación Geológico y Energético (2017a) the units present in our research They have an age between the Oligocene to the Miocene but with the cartography carried out ata scale of 1: 10,000, younger deposits were observed, so the volcanism possibly extended until the Pleistocene.The analyzes: petrographic, X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence and thin sheets, allowed to characterize pyroclastic flow deposits, epiclastic flow deposits and fall deposits and thus have a more detailed classification of the different deposits.