CACHIRI, Limestone

LOWER CRETACEOUS

State of Zulia, Venezuela

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

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

Original description: ibid.

The Cachirí limestone is characterized as a "masive, grey, hard, crystalline limestone" (Garner, 1926, p. 679) of about 700 feet in thickness. It forms the hills west of the village Cachirí, western Mara, Zulia.

A. H. Garner places the Cachirí limestone between the Cojoro sandstone and the Manantiales limestone (Garner, 1926, p. 678). Consequently, it is held to correspond to a limestone of the Apón formation of to-day's usage. The upper and lower boundaries of the Cachirí limestone are, how ever, fault contacts, and the definite correlation is not yet known (Sutton, 1946, p. 1644-1645).

The name Cachirí limestone is eliminated.

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