Open AccessLithified Thrombolites in the Ensenada de la Paz, B.C.S., México.
Author(s) -
David Alfaro Siqueiros Beltrones,
Uri Argumedo-Hernández,
Óscar Ubisha Hernández Almeida
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
cicimar oceánides
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2448-9123
pISSN - 1870-0713
DOI - 10.37543/oceanides.v21i1-2.32
Subject(s) - lithification , geology , paleontology , mangrove , sediment , ecology , biology
The beaches of the Ensenada de La Paz, B.C.S., México are bordered by sediment formations of cyanophytic originidentified as recent thrombolites that represented the first record of live thrombolites for the region and México. In a later exploration lithified thrombolites were discovered at Estero Zacatecas on the angle formed by El Mogote and the coastline, behind the mangrove fringe. It is feasible that the process of thrombolitic formation may have triggered the birth of the El Mogote sand bar.