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Importancia econmica: En algunos horizontes del Grupo Difunta en la Cuenca de Parras, hay
importantes afloramientos de arenisca ferro-titano-zirconferas., en la Sierra Las Imgenes y
Mina Rinconada, situadas al norte de Saltillo, Coahuila se explotan arcillas industriales
(Barboza et al., 1997).
Estado nomenclatural: Unidad formal del Grupo Difunta establecido por Muray et al., en 1962.
Unidad revisada por: Amezcua, N.
ltima revisin: 07.07.06
Citas bibliogrficas: Barboza et al., 1997; Imlay, 1936; McBride et al., 1974; Montiel et al., 2005;
Murray et al.,1960; Murray et al., 1962; Reyes et al., 2006; Soegaard et al., 2003; Vega et
al., 1999; Wolleben, 1977.
Barboza,L.D., Santiago C.B., Izaguirre R.M.A., Martnez R.C., Gracia V.M., 1997, Carta GeolgicoMinera Monclova, G14-4, Escala 1:250,000 Estados de Coahuila y Nuevo Len, Consejo
de Recursos Minerales, Informe tcnico, indito.
Imlay, R.W., 1936, Evolution of the Coahuila Peninsula, Mexico, Part IV, Geology of the Western
part of the Sierra de Parras. Geol.Soc. Am. Bull., v.47, p.1091-1152.
McBride, E.F., A. E. Weidie, J.A., Wolleben, R.C. Laudon, 1974, Stratigraphy and structure of the
Parras and La Popa Basins, Northeast Mexico. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull.,v.84, p 1603-1622.
Montiel J., Amezcua N., Reyes R.N.A., Maldonado L. J.M., Aranda O.J.N., Santiago C.B., 2005,
Servicio Geolgico Mexicano, Carta Geolgico-Minera del Estado de Coahuila, Escala
1:500, 000.
Murray, G.E., D.R Boyd, C.O. Durham, Jr., R. H. Forde, R.M. Lawrence, P.D. Lewis, K.G. ;Martin,
Jr A.E. Weidie, Jr., W.P. Wilbert and J.A. Wolleben, 1960, Stratigraphy of Difunta Group,
Parras Basin, States of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Copenage, International
Geolgical Congress, 21, part 5, The Cretaceous- Tertiary Bundary, p.82-96.
Murray, G.E., A.E. Weidie, Jr., D.R. Boyd, R. H. Forde, and P.D. Lewis, Jr. 1962. Formational
divisions of Difunta Group, Parras Basin, Coahuila and Nuevo Len, Mexico. Am. Assoc.
Petrol. Geol. Bull., v.46, no.3, p. 374-383.
Reyes R. J.A., Maldonado L.J.M., Amezcua N., De la Calleja M.A., 2006, Servicio Geolgico
Mexicano, Carta Geolgico-Minera del Estado de Nuevo Len, Escala 1:500, 000. En
prensa.
Soegaard, . H., Ye., N. Halik, A.T. Daniels, J. Arney, and S. Garrick, 2003, Stratiraphic Evolution of
Latest Cretaceous to Early Tertiary Difunta Foreland Basin n northeast Mexico: Influence of
salt withdrawal on tectonically induced subsidence by the Sierra Madre Oriental Fold and
thrust belt, in C. Bartolini, R.T. Bluffer, and J Blickwede, eds., The Circum-Gulf f Mexico and
the Caribbean: Hydrocarbon habitats, basin formation and plate tectonics: AAPG Memoir
79, p. 364-394.
Vega, F.J., M.C. Perrilliat and L. Mitre-Salazar, 1999, Paleocene ostreids from the Las Encinas
Formation (Parras basin, Difunta Grop), northeastern Mexico; stratigraphic implications, in
Bartolini, C., Wilson,J.L., and Lawton, T.F. eds., Mesozoic Sedimentary and Tectonic
History of North-Central Mexico: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, Special
Paper 340, p. 105-110.
Wolleben, J.A., 1977, Paleontology of the Difunta Group (Upper Cretaceous-Tertiary) in Northern
Mexico: Journal of Paleontology v 51, no. 2, p. 373-398.