The Neuquén Basin represents one of the more significant examples in Argentina where several marine carbonate-evaporite and continental cycles were developed during the Jurassic-Cretaceous. Numerous Ba-Sr stratabound deposits are closely associated with t he carbonate a nd gypsum horizons of several stratigraphic u nits, as t he result of d ifferent m ineralizing processes: sedimentary-exhalative
... [Show full abstract] deposition onto the seafloor, selected replacements of carbonate rocks and gypsum beds with subsequent diagenetic processes and hydrothermal infilling of fractures, voids and vugs. The Ba-Sr mineralizations are mainly epigenetic, and they are related to hydrothermal fluids that occurred in areas with or without igneous rock outcrops.