TACAMIRE, Sandstone

TERTIARY (lower Oligocene)

State of Falcón, Venezuela

Partly synonymous with GUACHARACA, Formation.

Author of name: A. Senn, 1935.

Original reference: A. Senn, 1935, Taf. VIII.

Original description: none published.

A. Senn (1935, Taf. VIII) published the name Tacamire sandstone a unit conformably overlying the Tacamire shales, and a lower Oligocene is assigned to it. The name is derived from the village of Tacamire, west-southwest of Agua Linda, District of Acosta, Eastern Falcón. Liddle (1946, p. 373, 406) includes this unit into the Churuguara formation. The Tacamire sandstone is sometimes referred to as Guacharaca, La Danta or Guayaval sands (Suter, 1947, p. 2195).

Senn´s Tacamire sandstone represents an inadequately defined stratigraphic unit. It is synonymous with the upper part of the Guacharaca formation (Renz, 1948, p. 8, 30).

H. H. Renz