MANANTIALES, Limestone

CRETACEOUS

State of Zulia, Venezuela

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

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

Original description: ibid.

The Manantiales limestone is a gray, hard, massive, crystalline limestone which is overlain by black calcareous shales containing black fossiliferous limestone concretions. Its thickness is estimated to about 500 feet (Garner, 1926, p. 679).

The name is derived from the village of Manantiales, southwestern Páez, Zulia, north of which the limestone forms small hills.

According to A. H. Garner, the Manantiales limestone is younger than the Cachiri limestone, and corresponds to the La Luna formation of southwestern Zulia and to the upper part of the Agua Blanca limestone of Portuguesa (Garner, 1926, p. 678). F. A. Sutton places the Manantiales limestone into the comprehensive Cogollo group without referring it to a certain formation of the group (Sutton, 1945, p. 1644). It appears to correlate with the upper Capacho and the La Luna formations.

The term is not used any more.

Wolf Maync