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词条 Ischigualasto Provincial Park
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  1. History

  2. Description

  3. Paleontology

  4. See also

  5. References

      Bibliography  

  6. External links

{{Infobox protected area
| name = Ischigualasto Provincial Park
| alt_name = Parque Provincial Ischigualasto
Valle de la Luna
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| photo = Ischigualasto national park.jpg
| photo_alt = The Submarine, wind-eroded rock formation
| photo_caption = The Submarine, wind-eroded rock formation
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| location = San Juan Province, Argentina
| nearest_city = San José de Jáchal
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| map = Argentina
| map_width = 120
| map_alt = Location in Argentina
| map_caption = Location in Argentina
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| area_ha = 60370
| established = {{start date|1971|11|3}}[1]
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| designation1 = WHS
| designation1_offname =
Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks
| designation1_type = Natural
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| designation1_number = 966[2]
| designation1_date = 2000 {{small|(24th session)}}
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Ischigualasto Provincial Park ({{lang-es|Parque Provincial Ischigualasto}}), also called Valle de la Luna ("Valley of the Moon" or "Moon Valley"), due to its otherworldly appearance, is a provincial protected area in the north-east of San Juan Province, north-western Argentina, limiting to the north with the Talampaya National Park, in La Rioja Province. Both areas belong to the same geological formation, the Ischigualasto Formation (sometimes Ischigualasto-Talampaya Formation)

Established on 3 November 1971,[1] the park has an area of {{convert|60370|ha|km2 sqmi|abbr=on}}

In 2000 UNESCO included Ischigualasto and Talampaya National Park among its World Heritage Sites.[2]

History

The name Ischigualasto is derived from the extinct Cacán language, spoken by an indigenous group referred to as the Diaguita by the Spanish conquistadors and means "place where the moon alights".[3] Another hypothesis gives the name "Ischigualasto" a Quechua origin, meaning "dead land",{{cn|date=March 2019}} although some scholars have proposed Huarpe roots.{{cn|date=March 2019}}

The first paleontological description of Ischigualasto dates from 1930. In 1941 the area was studied in more detail, which led to the discovery of 70 species of fossil plants. The region received for the first time the name Valle de la Luna in 1943, in a publication edited by the Automobil Club Argentino. That year, Dr. Ángel Cabrera of University of La Plata described the traversodontid Exaeretodon—the first cynodont found in Ischigualasto—after samples sent by a geologist prospecting for coal on behalf of an Argentine mining company.{{sfn|Cabrera|1943}}

Academic work and geological prospecting proceeded slowly until 1958, when Dr. Alfred Sherwood Romer, a Harvard University expert in ancient mammals, discovered several rich fossil beds which he described as "extraordinary".

Description

Most of the park lies within the Valle Fértil Department, with a minor part in the Jachal Department of San Juan, at an altitude of about {{convert|1300|m|abbr=on}} amsl. The park is part of the western border of the Central Sierras, and it features typical desert vegetation (bushes, cacti and some trees) which covers between 10 and 20% of the area. The climate is very dry, with rainfall mostly during the summer, and temperature extremes (minimum {{convert|-10|C|abbr=on|disp=or}}, maximum {{convert|45|C|abbr=on|disp=or}}). There is a constant southern wind with a speed of {{convert|20|-|40|km/h|abbr=on}} after noon and until the evening, sometimes accompanied by the extremely strong Zonda wind.

Paleontology

{{main|Ischigualasto Formation}}{{see also|Choiyoi Group}}

The Ischigualasto Formation contains Late Triassic (Carnian) deposits (231.4 -225.9 million years before the present{{sfn|Martínez et al.|2011}}), with some of the oldest known dinosaur remains, which are the world's foremost with regards to quality, number and importance. This allows for the study of the transition between dinosaurs and ancient mammals; research is ongoing.

In the Carnian this area was a volcanically active floodplain dominated by rivers and had a strongly seasonal rainfall. Petrified tree trunks of Protojuniperoxylon ischigualastianus more than {{convert|40|m|abbr=on}} tall attest to a rich vegetation at that time. Fossil ferns and horsetails have also been found.

Rhynchosaurs and cynodonts (especially rhynchosaur Hyperodapedon and cynodont Exaeretodon{{sfn|Martínez et al.|2011}}) are by far the predominant findings among the tetrapod fossils in the park. A study from 1993 found dinosaur specimens to comprise only 6% of the total tetrapod sample;{{sfn|Rogers et al.|1993}} subsequent discoveries increased this number to approximately 11% of all findings.{{sfn|Martínez et al.|2011}} Carnivorous dinosaurs are the most common terrestrial carnivores of the Ischigualasto Formation, with herrerasaurids comprising 72% of all recovered terrestrial carnivores.{{sfn|Martínez et al.|2011}} Dinosaurs of Ischigualasto Formation include early samples of the two major lineages of dinosaurs (ornithischians and saurischians). The carnivorous archosaur Herrerasaurus is the most numerous of these dinosaur fossils. Another important putative dinosaur with primitive characteristics is Eoraptor lunensis, found in Ischigualasto in the early 1990s.

See also

  • List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

References

1. ^{{cite Argentine law|jur=SJ|l=3666|date=11 de noviembre de 1971|sdate=3 de noviembre de 1971}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/966|title=Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks|publisher=UNESCO World Heritage Centre}}
3. ^{{es}} [https://www.elterritorio.com.ar/nota4.aspx?c=9582176912800389 El lugar donde se posa la luna]

Bibliography

  • {{cite LSA |last=Cabrera |first=Ángel |year=1943 |title=El primer hallazgo de terápsidos en la Argentina |journal=Notas del Museo de la Plata |volume=8 |pages=317–331 |ref=harv}}
  • {{cite LSA |last=Martínez |first=Ricardo N. |last2=Sereno |first2=Paul C. |last3=Alcober |first3=Oscar A. |last4=Colombi |first4=Carina E. |last5=Renne |first5=Paul R. |last6=Montañez |first6=Isabel P. |last7=Currie |first7=Brian S. |year=2011 |title=A Basal Dinosaur from the Dawn of the Dinosaur Era in Southwestern Pangaea |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49753908_A_Basal_Dinosaur_from_the_Dawn_of_the_Dinosaur_Era_in_Southwestern_Pangaea |journal=Science |volume=331 |issue=6014 |pages=206–210 |accessdate=2019-03-29 |ref={{harvid|Martínez et al.|2011}}}}
  • {{cite LSA |last=Rogers |first=Raymond R. |last2=Swisher III |first2=Carl C. |last3=Sereno |first3=Paul C. |last4=Monetta |first4=Alfredo M. |last5=Forster |first5=Catherine A. |last6=Martínez |first6=Ricardo N. |year=1993 |title=The Ischigualasto Tetrapod Assemblage (Late Triassic, Argentina) and 40Ar/39Ar Dating of Dinosaur Origins |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6094550_The_Ischigualasto_Tetrapod_Assemblage_Late_Triassic_Argentina_and_40Ar39Ar_Dating_of_Dinosaur_Origins |journal=Science |volume=260 |issue=5109 |pages=794–797 |accessdate=2019-03-29 |ref={{harvid|Rogers et al.|1993}}}}

External links

{{commons|Parque Provincial de Ischigualasto}}
  • [https://archive.is/20121220203707/http://www.ischigualasto.org/nuevoischi/ischigualasto/index.htm Ischigualasto] at Ente Autárquico Ischigualasto {{es icon}}
  • UNESCO World Heritage Centre – Description of the Ischigualasto-Talampaya site at UNESCO
  • Localities of the Triassic: Ischigualasto Formation, Argentina at University of California Museum of Paleontology
  • Parque Provincial Ischigualasto at La HueYa {{es icon}}
  • Valle de la Luna – Ischigualasto at ArgentinaXplora {{es icon}}
  • Pictures from Valle de la Luna at  
{{World Heritage Sites in Argentina}}

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