COJORO, Sandstone

LOWER CRETACEOUS

State of Zulia, Venezuela

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

Original reference: Garner, 1926, p. 679.

Original description: ibid.

The Cojoro sandstone is a massive dark-brown hard coarse-grained sandstone attaining a thickness of about 500 feet. It is exposed in some small hills in the plains northwest of the village of Cojoro, La Goajira Peninsula, Zulia.

According to Garner, the Cojoro sandstone underlies the Cachirí limestone; it appears to correlate roughly with the Río Negro formation.

The term is not used.

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