The carbonate platform of the Upper Tibasosa Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Eastern Cordillera Basin, Firavitoba-Boyacá, Colombia
Published 2021-01-07
Keywords
- Limestones,
- Diagenesis,
- Eastern Cordillera Basin,
- Upper Tibasosa Formation,
- Cathodoluminescence (CL)
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Abstract
The Tibasosa Formation is the main source of limestones in Boyacá. This unit corresponds to a Valanginian-Albian age according to the fossil content in the Eastern Cordillera Basin, recording the first incursion of the Cretaceous sea in Firavitoba. Outcrop-based facies and stratigraphic analyzes of the ~12 m-thick siliciclastic-carbonate succession of the uppermost Tibasosa Formation indicate tidal and carbonate systems. Ten facies/microfacies are grouped into two facies associations (FAs): FA1, tidal flat deposits consist of laminated sandstones/siltstones and floatstones with a single organism dominance (bivalve shells); and FA2 comprises fossiliferous rudstones, floatstones, packstones, and wackstones, representing a carbonate platform. The petrographic description determined rock textures/genesis and the diagenetic sequence with features of the eodiagenesis, mesodiagenesis, and telodiagenesis suggesting a primary origin of these carbonates. The analysis using cathodoluminescence (CL), energy disperse spectrometry (EDS), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) allowed identify compositional differences, cementation phases, and morphological features in different processes as micritization, neomorphism, porosity, pyritization, compaction, cementation, fracturing, and weathering. The interpretation of facies and microfacies indicated a deposition mainly in a shallow platform with variation in the hydraulic conditions, warm waters, and episodic events of storms/tsunamis that fragmented the bioclasts. A shallow marine system in the Eastern Cordillera Basin during Cretaceous indicates a large transgressive event that flooded hundreds of kilometers, being a link with the Pacific Ocean before the Andes uplift. The main diagenetic events correspond to micritization, cementation of calcite, and mechanical/chemical compaction as a result of microbial activity, dissolution, precipitation in the vadose/phreatic zone, and burial diagenesis. The diagenetic sequence events reveal the incidence of marine and meteoric process that reduced porosity and attest to the microbial activity in carbonate precipitated. This new interpretation allows the understanding of carbonate platforms in the Eastern Cordillera Basin for future correlations of the Cretaceous sea in Colombia.
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