PARIAN, Group

CRETACEOUS AND TERTIARY

Trinidad and Venezuela

Author of name: unknowm.

Original reference: G. P. Wall and J. G. Sawkins, 1860.

Original description: ibid.

Although the term "Parian group" corresponds to the stratigraphy of Trinidad, it should be mentioned in the Venezuelan lexicon, since the name is derived from the Península of Paria, and also might be found in some of the literature of the last century, for instance Guppy (1863, p. 268) refers to the "Older Parian" of Cumaná. We have not been able to consult the original publications of Wall and Sawkins (1860) or Wall (1860) in which presumably these authors mentioned the Parian group or system in Venezuela. G. A. Waring (1926, p. 26) gives a summary of the divisions recognized by Wall and Sawkins, who divided their Parian into two "groups"; Older Parian group, which corresponded to the Cretaceous; and Younger Parian group, which comprised formations principally of the Miocene, but included some as old as Oligocene (Nariva formation). The names are obsolete.

Sea also OLDER PARIAN, System.

Frances de Rivero

OLDER PARIAN, System

CRETACEOUS

State of Sucre, Venezuela

Author of name: G. P. Wall, 1860.

Original reference: G. P. Wall, 1860, p. 460.

Original description: ibid.

The comprehensive term Older Parian System was applied by G. P. Wall (1860) to the sedimentary sequence building up the region of the Serranía del Interior vsouth of Cumaná-Casanay-Pilar). These beds (W. Sievers: "Kreidegebirge") were referred to the Neocomian (Sievers, 1896, p. 247).

The name which includes the entire Lower Cretaceous Sucre group and the Upper Cretaceous Querecual formation of present-day usage, is discarded.

(See also PARIAN, Group).

Wolf Maync