Boletín de Geología

Vol. 39 No. 1 (2017): Boletín de Geología
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PETROGENETIC STUDY OF METAMORPHIC ROCKS OF THE FLORESTA MASSIF, EASTERN CORDILLERA, COLOMBIAN ANDES

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  • Sandra Rocío Manosalva-Sánchez,
  • Wilson Enario Naranjo-Merchán,
  • Carlos Alberto Ríos-Reyes,
  • Ricardo Amorocho-Parra,
  • Oscar Mauricio Castellanos-Alarcón
Sandra Rocío Manosalva-Sánchez
Escuela de Ingeniería Geológica, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Sogamoso, Colombia.
Wilson Enario Naranjo-Merchán
Escuela de Ingeniería Geológica, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Sogamoso, Colombia.
Carlos Alberto Ríos-Reyes
Escuela de Geología, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
Ricardo Amorocho-Parra
Escuela de Geología, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
Oscar Mauricio Castellanos-Alarcón
Programa de Geología, Universidad de Pamplona, Pamplona, Colombia.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18273/revbol.v39n1-2017004

Published 2017-03-01

Keywords

  • Metapelites,
  • metamorphism,
  • Busbanzá Phyllites and Schists,
  • Floresta Massif,
  • Colombia

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Manosalva-Sánchez, S. R., Naranjo-Merchán, W. E., Ríos-Reyes, C. A., Amorocho-Parra, R., & Castellanos-Alarcón, O. M. (2017). PETROGENETIC STUDY OF METAMORPHIC ROCKS OF THE FLORESTA MASSIF, EASTERN CORDILLERA, COLOMBIAN ANDES. Boletín De Geología, 39(1), 83–103. https://doi.org/10.18273/revbol.v39n1-2017004
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Abstract

In the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia a series of ancient massifs of metamorphic rocks of Precambrian-Paleozoic age occur, which from south to north are: Garzón, Quetame, Floresta and Santander, whose study and geological understanding constitutes an essential part of the geological evolution of Colombia. The core of the Floresta Massif consists of metamorphic rocks (Busbanzá´s Phyllites and Schists Formation) of pelitic and semipelitic protoliths of pre-Ordovician age, which were affected by a first event of regional orogenic metamorphism average P/T (Pressure/Temperature), where phyllites, schists and paraneis were developed, from the greenschist facies to the amphibolite facies and the Ordovician (471±22 Ma) for a second event of contact metamorphism, related to a series of granitic intrusions syntectonic (Otengá Stock), which developed hornfels, pyroxene facies hornfelsa. Floresta Massif forms an anticlinal structure, buzante to the southwest and elongated north, extending towards the Massif de Santander, which is limited laterally by the Boyacá and Soapaga fault systems to the northwest and southeast, respectively. The igneous and metamorphic core is highly eroded in the central part and is unconformably covered on its edges by conglomerates, sandstones and mudstones from Devonian to Cretaceous age. Studies by several authors always relate the occurrence of cordierite in the metapelitic units; however, in this study, the analisis of mineral chemistry (WDX) by electron microprobe reveals that what was being defined as cordierite corresponds to orthoclases associated with albites (pertitic textures), thus changing both the mineral assemblages and the conditions of metamorphism.

 

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