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Bahía Inglesa Formation

geologic formation in Chile

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ73928180 ↗
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The Bahía Inglesa Formation (alternatively misspelled "Bahia") is a littoral, sedimentary, and highly fossiliferous geological formation that outcrops across the nearby coastal zones of Caldera, Chile. The unit is part of the greater Caldera Basin and was deposited in deep-shallow water, littoral paleoenvironments. It holds an exquisite fossil record in several localities (such as Cerro Ballena or Los Dedos), mostly composed of marine mammals, as well as invertebrate taxa.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bahía Inglesa Formation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.