Serranía de Jarara, Serranía de Macuira, Gulf of Venezuela, Serranía Cocinas
Part of
Circum-Caribbean basins
Area
~1,000 km2 (390 sq mi)
Hydrology
Sea(s)
Tortugas or Tucacas Bay, Cocinetas Bay Gulf of Venezuela Caribbean Sea
Geology
Basin type
Pull-apart basin
Plate
North Andes
Orogeny
Andean
Age
Mid Eocene-Holocene
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy
Faults
Cuisa & Macuira (bounding)
Field(s)
none
The Cocinetas Basin (Spanish: Cuenca Cocinetas) is a small sedimentary basin of approximately 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi) in northeasternmost Colombia. The onshore pull-apart basin is located in the department of La Guajira at the border with Zulia, Venezuela. The basin is bound by three sets of hills; the Serranía de Jarara, Serranía Macuira and Serranía Cocinas, with the eastern boundary formed by the Gulf of Venezuela, part of the Caribbean Sea.
The basin was formed during the Paleogene as a result of the eastward movement of the Caribbean Plate along the northern edge of the South American Plate, leading to the deposition of a Middle Eocene to Middle Pleistocene sedimentary sequence of conglomerates, sandstones, siltstones, limestones and mudstones.
In the Cocinetas Basin, several fossiliferous stratigraphic units have been registered, providing an abundance of marine and continental vertebrate and invertebrate fossil fauna assemblages. The Uitpa, Jimol, Castilletes and Ware Formations contain numerous fossils of Neogene and Quaternary ages, both before and after the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI), presenting new insights in the understanding of the variation in South American fauna related to the uplift of the Panama Block and the connection of North America and South America.
The CocinetasBasin (Spanish: Cuenca Cocinetas) is a small sedimentary basin of approximately 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi) in northeasternmost Colombia...
2017-06-14. CocinetasBasin Amson, Eli; Juan D. Carrillo, and Carlos Jaramillo. 2016. Neogene sloth assemblages (Mammalia, Pilosa) of the CocinetasBasin (La...
Jaramillo. 2016. Neogene sloth assemblages (Mammalia, Pilosa) of the CocinetasBasin (La Guajira, Colombia): Implications for the Great American Biotic...
of a second species H. miyou from the Castilletes Formation in the CocinetasBasin of northern Colombia, and estimated the body weight of the animal at...
(San Gregorio Formation, Venezuela), and Colombia (Ware Formation, CocinetasBasin, La Guajira). Originally misidentified as a kind of bear, Chapalmalania...
southwest of the CocinetasBasin, the Oca and Bucaramanga-Santa Marta Faults were tectonically active. The stratigraphy of the Llanos Basin ranges, depending...
Andes being an exception. Arauco Basin, Chile Altiplano Basin, Peru, Chile, Bolivia Caldera Basin, Chile CocinetasBasin, Colombia Urumaco Formation, Venezuela...
(Spanish: Formación Macarao, E2m) is a geological formation of the CocinetasBasin in the northernmost Colombian department of La Guajira. The formation...
Formación Uitpa, E3u) is a fossiliferous geological formation of the CocinetasBasin in the northernmost department of La Guajira. The formation consists...
Castilletes Formation, contemporaneous fossiliferous formation of the CocinetasBasin, Colombia Cerro Ballena, contemporaneous fossil site of the Bahía Inglesa...
Formación Castilletes, N1c) is a fossiliferous geological formation of the CocinetasBasin in the northernmost department of La Guajira, Colombia. The formation...
Magdalena Basin or Middle Magdalena Valley Basin (Spanish: Valle Medio del Magdalena, commonly abbreviated to VMM) is an intermontane basin, located in...
Jaramillo. 2016. Neogene sloth assemblages (Mammalia, Pilosa) of the CocinetasBasin (La Guajira, Colombia): Implications for the Great American Biotic...
(Spanish: Formación Ware) is a fossiliferous geological formation of the CocinetasBasin in the northernmost department of La Guajira. The formation consists...
Geology of the Eastern Hills of Bogotá Basin history of the Cesar-Ranchería BasinBasin history of the CocinetasBasin Middle Magdalena Valley (VMM) Paris...
along the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean coast of Venezuela, from CocinetasBasin (on the western border with Colombia) to the edge of the Caño Manamo...
Colombia Geology of the Eastern Hills of Bogotá List of Muisca toponyms CocinetasBasin Paris et al., 2000, pp.20–26 Paris et al., 2000, p.10 Paris et al....
Formación Jimol, N1j) is a fossiliferous geological formation of the CocinetasBasin in the northernmost department of La Guajira. The formation consists...
(2021). "A fossil fish assemblage from the middle Miocene of the CocinetasBasin, northern Colombia". Papers in Palaeontology. 8. doi:10.1002/spp2.1405...
Jaramillo. 2016. Neogene sloth assemblages (Mammalia, Pilosa) of the CocinetasBasin (La Guajira, Colombia): Implications for the Great American Biotic...
fossiliferous formation of the CocinetasBasin, Colombia Castillo Formation, contemporaneous fossiliferous formation of the Falcón Basin, Venezuela Biblián Formation...
Jaramillo. 2016. Neogene sloth assemblages (Mammalia, Pilosa) of the CocinetasBasin (La Guajira, Colombia): Implications for the Great American Biotic...
United States (New Jersey, Oregon, Washington) Miocene Uitpa Formation, CocinetasBasin, Colombia M. D. Reed. 1946. New species of fossil shark from New Jersey...
large fossil herbivorous mammals from North America, Europe and Turkana Basin in Africa is published by Žliobaitė, Fortelius & Stenseth (2017). A study...
Jaramillo. 2016. Neogene sloth assemblages (Mammalia, Pilosa) of the CocinetasBasin (La Guajira, Colombia): Implications for the Great American Biotic...
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