Guaduas Formation

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Guaduas Formation
Stratigraphic range: Maastrichtian-Paleocene
~68–60 Ma
TypeGeological formation
UnderliesCacho Formation
OverliesGuadalupe Gp.
 
Thicknessup to 1,090 metres (3,580 ft)
Lithology
PrimaryShale
OtherSandstone, coal
Location
Coordinates5°05′N 74°36′W / 5.083°N 74.600°W / 5.083; -74.600Coordinates: 5°05′N 74°36′W / 5.083°N 74.600°W / 5.083; -74.600
RegionMiddle Magdalena Basin
Magdalena River Valley
Altiplano Cundiboyacense
Eastern Ranges, Andes
Country Colombia
Type section
Named forGuaduas
Named byHubach
LocationGuaduas
Year defined1931
Coordinates5°05′N 74°36′W / 5.083°N 74.600°W / 5.083; -74.600
Approximate paleocoordinates0°36′N 52°30′W / 0.6°N 52.5°W / 0.6; -52.5
RegionCundinamarca, Boyacá
Country Colombia
Blakey 065Ma - COL.jpg
Paleogeography of Northern South America
65 Ma, by Ron Blakey

The Guaduas Formation (Spanish: Formación Guaduas, K2P1G, K2E1G, KPgg, KTg, TKg, Ktg) is a geological formation of the Middle Magdalena Basin and the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. The predominantly shale with coalbed formation dates to the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene periods; Maastrichtian-Paleocene epochs, and has a maximum thickness of 1,090 metres (3,580 ft). Fossils of Coussapoa camargoi, , and have been found in coalbeds in Zipaquirá and Tasco, Boyacá.

Etymology[]

The formation was first described by Hettner in 1894 and named in 1931 by Hubach after Guaduas, Cundinamarca, former northern territory of the Panche.[1]

Description[]

Lithologies[]

The Guaduas Formation consists mainly of shales with intercalated sandstone beds. The formation contains coalbeds that are widely explored in the area.[2] Fossil remains of Coussapoa camargoi, , and have been found in coalbeds in Zipaquirá and Tasco, Boyacá.[3][4][5]

Stratigraphy and depositional environment[]

The Guaduas Formation unconformably[6] overlies the of the Guadalupe Group and is overlain by the Cacho Formation. The age has been estimated to be Upper Maastrichtian-Lower Paleocene, spanning the K-T boundary.[7] The Guaduas Formation is thicker in Cundinamarca than in Boyacá. This has been explained by a decrease in subsidence and a higher amount of erosion in the northern area of original deposition.[8] The lateral thickness variations are thought to be the result of the movement of the .[9] The formation has been deposited in a coastal plain setting.[4]

Outcrops[]

Guaduas Formation is located in the Altiplano Cundiboyacense
Guaduas Formation
Type locality of the Guaduas Formation to the west of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense

The Guaduas Formation is apart from its type locality, found in the Eastern Hills of Bogotá, the Ocetá Páramo and many other locations in the Eastern Ranges, such as Granada,[10] the Dintel Synclinal north of Facatativá,[11] the Suesca Synclinal,[12] east of Junín,[13] and surrounding Lake Tota.[14] The northeast-southwest Canocas Fault crosscuts the Guaduas Formation near San Cayetano.[15] The synclinals of the Río Frío, , Zipaquirá, Checua-Lenguazaque, Sesquilé, , Subachoque, Teusacá and Usme and Soacha are composed of the Guaduas Formation.[2] The are entirely composed of the Guaduas Formation.[16] The formation also has outcrops in the Sumapaz Páramo.[17]

Regional correlations[]

Cretaceous stratigraphy of the central Colombian Eastern Ranges
Age Paleomap VMM Guaduas-Vélez W Emerald Belt Villeta anticlinal Chiquinquirá-
Arcabuco
Tunja-
Duitama
Altiplano Cundiboyacense El Cocuy
Maastrichtian Blakey 065Ma - COL.jpg eroded Guaduas
Guadalupe
Campanian
Oliní
Santonian -
Coniacian Oliní Conejo Chipaque
Loma Gorda undefined La Frontera
Turonian Blakey 090Ma - COL.jpg Hondita La Frontera
Cenomanian hiatus Simijaca
Pacho Fm. Hiló - Pacho Une
Albian Blakey 105Ma - COL.jpg Hiló Une
Capotes - -
Aptian Capotes Socotá - El Peñón Paja Fómeque
Paja Paja El Peñón Trincheras
La Naveta
Barremian Blakey 120Ma - COL.jpg
Hauterivian
Las Juntas
Rosablanca Ritoque
Valanginian Ritoque - Murca Rosablanca hiatus Macanal
Rosablanca
Berriasian Blakey 150Ma - COL.jpg Guavio
Arcabuco
Sources


Stratigraphy of the Llanos Basin and surrounding provinces
Ma Age Paleomap Regional events proximal Llanos distal Llanos Environments Maximum thickness Petroleum geology Notes
0.01 Holocene
Blakey 000Ma - COL.jpg
Holocene volcanism
Seismic activity
alluvium Overburden
1 Pleistocene
Blakey Pleist - COL.jpg
Pleistocene volcanism
Andean orogeny 3
Glaciations
Soatá
Sabana

Alluvial to fluvial (Guayabo) 550 m (1,800 ft)
(Guayabo)
[18][19][20][21]
2.6 Pliocene
Blakey 020Ma - COL.jpg
Pliocene volcanism
Andean orogeny 3
GABI
Subachoque
5.3 Messinian Andean orogeny 3
Foreland
Marichuela Honda [20][22]
13.5 Langhian Regional flooding hiatus Lacustrine (León) 400 m (1,300 ft)
(León)
Seal [21][23]
16.2 Burdigalian Miocene inundations
Andean orogeny 2
Proximal fluvio-deltaic (C1) 850 m (2,790 ft)
(Carbonera)
Reservoir [22][21]
17.3 Distal lacustrine-deltaic (C2) Seal
19 Proximal fluvio-deltaic (C3) Reservoir
21 Early Miocene Pebas wetlands Barzalosa Distal fluvio-deltaic (C4) Seal
23 Late Oligocene
Blakey 035Ma - COL.jpg
Andean orogeny 1
Foredeep
Proximal fluvio-deltaic (C5) Reservoir [19][22]
25 Distal fluvio-lacustrine (C6) Seal
28 Early Oligocene Proximal deltaic-marine (C7) Reservoir [19][22][24]
32 Oligo-Eocene Usme onlap Marine-deltaic (C8) Seal
Source
[24]
35 Late Eocene
Blakey 050Ma - COL.jpg
Coastal (Mirador) 240 m (790 ft)
(Mirador)
Reservoir [21][25]
40 Middle Eocene Regadera hiatus
45
50 Early Eocene
Blakey 065Ma - COL.jpg
Deltaic (Los Cuervos) 260 m (850 ft)
(Los Cuervos)
Seal
Source
[21][25]
55 Late Paleocene PETM
2000 ppm CO2
Bogotá
60 Early Paleocene SALMA Barco Guaduas Fluvial (Barco) 225 m (738 ft)
(Barco)
Reservoir [18][19][22][21][26]
65 Maastrichtian
Blakey 090Ma - COL.jpg
KT extinction Guadalupe Deltaic-fluvial (Guadalupe) 750 m (2,460 ft)
(Guadalupe)
Reservoir [18][21]
72 Campanian End of rifting [21][27]
83 Santonian Villeta/Güagüaquí
86 Coniacian
89 Turonian Cenomanian-Turonian anoxic event Chipaque Gachetá hiatus Restricted marine (all) 500 m (1,600 ft)
(Gachetá)
Source [18][21][28]
93 Cenomanian
Blakey 105Ma - COL.jpg
Rift 2
100 Albian Une Une Caballos Deltaic (Une) 500 m (1,600 ft)
(Une)
Reservoir [22][28]
113 Aptian
Blakey 120Ma - COL.jpg
Fómeque Open marine (Fómeque) 800 m (2,600 ft)
(Fómeque)
Source (Fóm) [19][21][29]
125 Barremian High biodiversity Paja Shallow to open marine (Paja) 940 m (3,080 ft)
(Paja)
Reservoir [18]
129 Hauterivian
Blakey 150Ma - COL.jpg
Rift 1 Las Juntas hiatus Deltaic (Las Juntas) 910 m (2,990 ft)
(Las Juntas)
Reservoir (LJun) [18]
133 Valanginian
Macanal
Rosablanca
Restricted marine (Macanal) 2,935 m (9,629 ft)
(Macanal)
Source (Mac) [19][30]
140 Berriasian Girón
145 Tithonian Break-up of Pangea Arcabuco
Alluvial, fluvial (Buenavista) 110 m (360 ft)
(Buenavista)
"Jurassic" [22][31]
150 Early-Mid Jurassic
Blakey 170Ma - COL.jpg
Passive margin 2 La Quinta

Noreán
hiatus Coastal tuff (La Quinta) 100 m (330 ft)
(La Quinta)
[32]
201 Late Triassic
Blakey 200Ma - COL.jpg
[22]
235 Early Triassic
237 Ma orogenies reconstruction.jpg
Pangea hiatus "Paleozoic"
250 Permian
280 Ma plate tectonic reconstruction.png
300 Late Carboniferous
Laurasia 330Ma.jpg
Famatinian orogeny
()
[33]
340 Early Carboniferous Fossil fish
Romer's gap
Cuche
(355-385)

()
Deltaic, estuarine (Cuche) 900 m (3,000 ft)
(Cuche)
360 Late Devonian
380 Ma plate tectonic reconstruction.png
Passive margin 1 Río Cachirí
(360-419)

()
Alluvial-fluvial-reef (Farallones) 2,400 m (7,900 ft)
(Farallones)
[30][34][35][36][37]
390 Early Devonian
Gondwana 420 Ma.png
High biodiversity Floresta
(387-400)
Shallow marine (Floresta) 600 m (2,000 ft)
(Floresta)
410 Late Silurian
425 Early Silurian hiatus
440 Late Ordovician
Middle Ordovician South Polar paleogeography - 460 Ma.png
Rich fauna in Bolivia
(450-490)

()
470 Early Ordovician First fossils
(>470±22)

()

()

()

Venado
(470-475)
[38][39][40]
488 Late Cambrian
ক্যাম্ব্রিয়ান৫০.png
Regional intrusions
(490-515)

()

()

(490-590)

()
[41][42]
515 Early Cambrian Cambrian explosion [40][43]
542 Ediacaran
Positions of ancient continents, 550 million years ago.jpg
Break-up of Rodinia pre-Quetame post-Parguaza
()
Yellow: allochthonous basement
(Chibcha Terrane)
Green: autochthonous basement
(Río Negro-Juruena Province)
Basement [44][45]
600 Neoproterozoic
Rodinia reconstruction.jpg
Cariri Velhos orogeny
(600-1400)
pre-Guaviare [41]
800
Pannotia - 2.png
Snowball Earth [46]
1000 Mesoproterozoic
Paleoglobe NO 1260 mya.gif
Sunsás orogeny
(1000)

(1030-1100)
[47][48][49][50]
1300 pre-Ariarí
(1300-1400)

(1180-1550)
[51]
1400
Paleoglobe NO 1590 mya-vector-colors.svg
pre-Bucaramanga [52]
1600 Paleoproterozoic
(1500-1700)
pre-Garzón [53]
1800
2050ma.png

(1800)
[51][53]
1950 pre-Mitú [51]
2200 Columbia
2530 Archean
Kenorland.jpg
[51]
3100 Kenorland
Sources
Legend
  • group
  • important formation
  • fossiliferous formation
  • minor formation
  • (age in Ma)
  • proximal Llanos (Medina)[note 1]
  • distal Llanos (Saltarin 1A well)[note 2]


Gallery[]

See also[]

Good article nominee Geology of the Eastern Hills
B-Class article Geology of the Ocetá Páramo
C-Class article Geology of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense

Notes and references[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ based on Duarte et al. (2019)[54], García González et al. (2009),[55] and geological report of Villavicencio[56]
  2. ^ based on Duarte et al. (2019)[54] and the hydrocarbon potential evaluation performed by the UIS and in 2009[57]

References[]

  1. ^ Montoya & Reyes, 2005, p.51
  2. ^ a b Montoya & Reyes, 2005, p.52
  3. ^ Coussapoa camargoi, Ficus andrewsi at fossilworks.org
  4. ^ a b Berhamniphyllum sp. & Archaeopaliurus boyacensis at fossilworks.org
  5. ^ 'Archaeopaliurus boyacensis' in the Paleobiology Database
  6. ^ Villamil, 2012, p.208
  7. ^ Montoya & Reyes, 2005, p.54
  8. ^ Mariño & Amaya, 2016, p.B9
  9. ^ Amaya et al., 2010
  10. ^ Plancha 246, 1998
  11. ^ Plancha 227, 1998
  12. ^ Plancha 190, 2009
  13. ^ Plancha 191, 1998
  14. ^ Plancha 192, 1998
  15. ^ Planchas 171 & 191
  16. ^ Geological Map Bogotá, 1997
  17. ^ (in Spanish) Geología y geomorfología - Salida de Campo: Región Llanos Orientales
  18. ^ a b c d e f García González et al., 2009, p.27
  19. ^ a b c d e f García González et al., 2009, p.50
  20. ^ a b García González et al., 2009, p.85
  21. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Barrero et al., 2007, p.60
  22. ^ a b c d e f g h Barrero et al., 2007, p.58
  23. ^ Plancha 111, 2001, p.29
  24. ^ a b Plancha 177, 2015, p.39
  25. ^ a b Plancha 111, 2001, p.26
  26. ^ Plancha 111, 2001, p.24
  27. ^ Plancha 111, 2001, p.23
  28. ^ a b Pulido & Gómez, 2001, p.32
  29. ^ Pulido & Gómez, 2001, p.30
  30. ^ a b Pulido & Gómez, 2001, pp.21-26
  31. ^ Pulido & Gómez, 2001, p.28
  32. ^ Correa Martínez et al., 2019, p.49
  33. ^ Plancha 303, 2002, p.27
  34. ^ Terraza et al., 2008, p.22
  35. ^ Plancha 229, 2015, pp.46-55
  36. ^ Plancha 303, 2002, p.26
  37. ^ Moreno Sánchez et al., 2009, p.53
  38. ^ Mantilla Figueroa et al., 2015, p.43
  39. ^ Manosalva Sánchez et al., 2017, p.84
  40. ^ a b Plancha 303, 2002, p.24
  41. ^ a b Mantilla Figueroa et al., 2015, p.42
  42. ^ Arango Mejía et al., 2012, p.25
  43. ^ Plancha 350, 2011, p.49
  44. ^ Pulido & Gómez, 2001, pp.17-21
  45. ^ Plancha 111, 2001, p.13
  46. ^ Plancha 303, 2002, p.23
  47. ^ Plancha 348, 2015, p.38
  48. ^ Planchas 367-414, 2003, p.35
  49. ^ Toro Toro et al., 2014, p.22
  50. ^ Plancha 303, 2002, p.21
  51. ^ a b c d Bonilla et al., 2016, p.19
  52. ^ Gómez Tapias et al., 2015, p.209
  53. ^ a b Bonilla et al., 2016, p.22
  54. ^ a b Duarte et al., 2019
  55. ^ García González et al., 2009
  56. ^ Pulido & Gómez, 2001
  57. ^ García González et al., 2009, p.60

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