AGUA BLANCA Limestone

LOWER CRETACEOUS

State of Portuguesa, Venezuela

Author of name: A. H. Garner, 1926.

Original reference: A. H. Garner, 1926, p. 679.

Original description: ibid.

The word References (in capitals) will be used to lead the bibliogratown of Agua Blanca, northeast of Acarigua, State of Portuguesa, is characterized as a gray massive, crystalline metamorphosed limestone which alternates in its upper part with black metamorphosed calcareous shale containing black limestone concretions (Garner, 1926, p. 679).

Its thickness is reported to attain approximately 2000 feet.

The Agua Blanca limestone is considered to correspond roughly to the Carora limestone of Lara and to the Manantiales-Cachirí limestones of Zulia (Garner, 1926, p. 678). Liddle connects it with his El Cantil formation (Liddle, 1928, p. 117). It correlates with the Capacho-La Luna formations of present-day use.

The term Agua Blanca limestone has been discarded.

Wolf Maync