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PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING & REMOTE SENSING
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING
& REMOTE SENSING
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Managing Editor Melissa J. Porterfield
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As the Neuquén River winds its way from the Andes through west-central Argentina
toward the Atlantic Ocean, it passes a spectacular series of rock formations in the
Neuquén Basin. For paleontologists, the basin is a great place to find fossils, partic-
ularly dinosaurs. And for those in the oil business, it is fertile ground for gas and oil
exploration.
The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat-8 acquired an image showing part of
the basin on 3 September 2018.
From space, boundaries between some of the major groups of sedimentary rock for-
mations are visible. In the first image, the deep reds of the Candeleros Formation—a
sequence of sandstones formed roughly 90 to 100 million years ago in a braided river
system—dominate the landscape. These rocks are flanked in some areas, especially
near the river, by a green-yellow sequence of rocks that are part of the younger Huni-
cal Formation, formed during drier times. The older Royosa Formation, meanwhile,
peeks through in some areas where erosion has scraped away overlying rock layers.
(See the cover image.)
Paleontologists have uncovered quite a menagerie of fossilized fauna in Candeleros
rocks, including ancient species of fish, frogs, snakes, turtles, small mammals, and
several types of dinosaurs. Few of the fossilized creatures have received the noto-
riety of Giganotosaurus carolinii—a carnivorous theropod thought to be larger and
faster than Tyrannosaurs Rex.
Petroleum geologists are more interested in what lies beneath the Candeleros For-
mation. Several layers of rock, formed when the area was covered by an ocean,
contain gas and oil. While drilling has been ongoing here since 1918, the recent
discovery of a large deposit of shale gas and oil in the Vaca Muerta Formation has
made the Neuquén Basin one of the few regions outside of the United States where
companies are pursuing horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the
U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.
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