PETROGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY OF CONTACT AUREOLE OF THE MARIQUITA GRANODIORITE (TOLIMA DEPARTMENT, COLOMBIAN CENTRAL CORDILLERA)

Abstract

In the Department of Tolima, northwest of the town of Mariquita, crops out the Mariquita Granodiorite, which known age is 113 ± 4 Ma K-Ar in biotite. The intrusive contact with the green, gray and black schists of the Cajamarca Complex developed a clear contact aureole with a maximum width of approximately 520 m in the area of Medina Falls (Mariquita-La Victoria road), which extends to the Chiminá creek, where its extent is reduced to approximately 240 m. Quartz-biotite and quartz-actinolite hornfels were developed as a superimposed event to a previous regional and ductile metamorphism. The albite-epidote hornfels facies is determined by the actinolite-epidote-chlorite association.