La Guajira Terrane

La Guajira Terrane
Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous (emplaced) ~
La Guajira Terrane is enclosed by the Bucaramanga-Santa Marta Fault (orange) and northernmost Oca Fault (white)
Type	Terrane
Unit of	North Andes Plate
Sub-units	Subunits
Overlies	Tahamí & Chibcha Terranes
Lithology
Primary	Complexes, basins
Other	Volcanoes
Location
Location	La Guajira, Magdalena departments
Coordinates	11°28′00″N 72°44′43″W
Region	Caribbean
Country	Colombia
Extent	Macuira, SNSM
Type section
Named for	La Guajira
La Guajira Terrane (Colombia) La Guajira Terrane (La Guajira Department)

La Guajira Terrane (Spanish: Terreno de La Guajira, TLG) is one of the geological provinces (terranes) of Colombia. The terrane, dating to the Late Cretaceous, is situated on the North Andes Plate and borders the Caribbean, Tahamí and Chibcha Terranes along the Bucaramanga-Santa Marta Fault. The southern boundary is formed by the Oca Fault with the Chibcha Terrane.

Subdivision

Complexes

Alto Guajira

• Macuira
• Etpana

Macuira Tahamí Terrane

• Jonjoncito
• Ipapure
• Ipapure-Cerro La Teta

Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

• Taganga (Taganga)
• Rodadero
• Gaira (Gaira)
• Ciénaga
• Santa Marta Batholith
• Bolívar Batholith
• Socorro Stock
• Latal Pluton
• Los Clavos
• Río Sevilla
• San Lorenzo
• San Pedro de la Sierra
• Buritacá
• Río Oríhueca
• Los Mangos - basement

Ranges

• Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
• Macuira

Basins

• La Guajira

Faults

bounding faults in bold

• Bucaramanga-Santa Marta (BSF)
• Oca
• Cuisa

Gallery

• 
  North Andes Plate
• 
  Seismic activity map
• 
  Geologic map (Codazzi, 1890)
• 
  Paleogeography of the Late Cretaceous (Blakey)

Geological Terranes Map of Colombia.

See also

• List of earthquakes in Colombia
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Colombia
• List of mining areas in Colombia
• Geology of the Eastern Hills of Bogotá
• Basin history of the Cesar-Ranchería Basin
• Basin history of the Cocinetas Basin
• Middle Magdalena Valley (VMM)

References

Bibliography

Terranes

• Gómez Tapias, Jorge; Montes Ramírez, Nohora E.; Almanza Meléndez, María F.; Alcárcel Gutiérrez, Fernando A.; Madrid Montoya, César A.; Diederix, Hans (2015), Geological Map of Colombia, Servicio Geológico Colombiano, pp. 1–212, retrieved 2019-10-29
• Restrepo, Jorge Julián; Ordóñez Carmona, Oswaldo; Martens, Uwe; Correa, Ana María (2009), "Terrenos, complejos y provincias en la Cordillera Central de Colombia (Terrains, complexes and provinces in the central cordillera of Colombia)", Ingeniería Investigación y Desarrollo, 9: 49–56, retrieved 2019-10-31
• Cordani, U.G.; Cardona, A.; Jiménez, D.M.; Dunyl, L.; Nutman, A.P. (2003), Geochronology of Proterozoic basement from the Colombian Andes: Tectonic history of remnants from a fragmented Grenville Belt, 10^o Congreso Geológico Chileno, pp. 1–10
• Restrepo, Jorge Julian; Toussaint, Jean F. (1988), "Terranes and continental accretion in the Colombian Andes", Episodes, 11 (3): 189–193, doi:10.18814/epiiugs/1988/v11i3/006, retrieved 2019-10-31

La Guajira Terrane

• Mora Bohórquez, Josué Alejandro; Ibánez Mejía, Mauricio; Oncken, Onno; de Freitas, Mario; Vélez, Vickye; Mesa, Andrés; Serna, Lina (2017), "Structure and age of the Lower Magdalena Valley basin basement, northern Colombia: New reflection-seismic and U-Pb-Hf insights into the termination of the central andes against the Caribbean basin", Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 74: 1–26, Bibcode:2017JSAES..74....1M, doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2017.01.001, retrieved 2019-10-29
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Reports

• Rodríguez, Gabriel; Londoño, Ana Cristina (2002), Mapa geológico del Departamento de La Guajira - 1:250,000, INGEOMINAS, pp. 1–259, retrieved 2017-08-08

Maps

• Zuluaga, Carlos A.; Ochoa, Alberto; Muñoz, Carlos A.; Dorado, Camilo E.; Guerrero, Nathalia M.; Martínez, Ana M.; Medina, Paula A.; Ocampo, Edgar F.; Pinilla and Paula A. Ríos, Bibiana P. Rodríguez, Edward A. Salazar, Vladimir L. Zapata, Alejandro (2008), Plancha 3 - Puerto Estrella - 1:100,000, INGEOMINAS, p. 1, retrieved 2017-06-06{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Zuluaga, Carlos A.; Ochoa, Alberto; Muñoz, Carlos A.; Dorado, Camilo E.; Guerrero, Nathalia M.; Martínez, Ana M.; Medina, Paula A.; Ocampo, Edgar F.; Pinilla and Paula A. Ríos, Bibiana P. Rodríguez, Edward A. Salazar, Vladimir L. Zapata, Alejandro (2008), Plancha 10bis - Rancho Grande - 1:100,000, INGEOMINAS, p. 1, retrieved 2017-06-06{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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• Colmenares, Fabio; Mesa, Milena; Roncancio, Jairo; Arciniegas, Edgar; Pedraza, Pablo; Cardona, Agustín; Silva, César; Romero, Jhoamna; Alvarado and Oscar Romero, Felipe Vargas, Carlos Santamaría, Sonia (2007), Plancha 12 - Don Diego - 1:100,000, INGEOMINAS, p. 1, retrieved 2017-06-06{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Hernández, Marina; Maldonado, Iván (1999), Plancha 18 - Ciénaga - 1:100,000, INGEOMINAS, p. 1, retrieved 2017-06-06
• Colmenares, Fabio; Mesa, Milena; Roncancio, Jairo; Arciniegas, Edgar; Pedraza, Pablo; Cardona, Agustín; Silva, César; Romero, Jhoamna; Alvarado and Oscar Romero, Felipe Vargas, Carlos Santamaría, Sonia (2007), Plancha 19 - Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta - 1:100,000, INGEOMINAS, p. 1, retrieved 2017-06-06{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)