TABLE 3 - LEYEND OF UPPER CRUST MODELS OF COLOMBIA

# # #
EONOTHEME # SYSTEM # SERIE SEDIMENTARY IGNEOUS
# # ERATHEME METAMORPHIC

Qm Qt
Qal Qtz Qc
QUATERNARY
# Quaternary detritic and Quaternary shore deposits. Quaternary alluvial, lake Quaternary alluvial terraces Quaternary alluvial fans,
organic deposits. and glacial deposits debris flows

NgQf
NgQm NgQt NgQc NgQp

Neogene to Quaternary calcareous Neogene to Quaternary claystone and Neogene to Quaternary alluvial Neogene to Quaternary pyroclastic Neogene to Quaternary lava with
siltstone with local limestone and sandstone with local calcareous fan deposits, interfingering with rocks with debris flows ocassional pyroclastic intercalations.
conglomerate beds; sandstone and limestone intercalations; sandstone and claystone; and alluvial deposits.
marine environment. marine environment. continental environment.

Ngm Ngt Nggm

NEOGENE Ngc Ngf Ngb
# Neogene claystone and sandstone Neogene claystone and sandstone
Ngs

Neogene sandstone with claystone

Neogene andesitic and dacitic Neogene pillow lavas. Neogene granites to monzodiorite Neogene monzodiorite to
with intercalations of siltstone with local evaporitic beds; beds and conglomeratic intercalations;
porphyry rocks. and quartzdiorite. pyroxenic - hornblendic diorite
and conglomerate; transitional environment. continental environment.
marine environment.

CENOZOIC

PgNgm PgNgt PgNgc

# Paleogene to Neogene limestone,
siltstone and calcareous sandstone,
occasional conglomeratic levels;
marine environment.
Paleogene to Neogene claystone,
sandstone and conglomerate,
local lenticular coal beds and
ferruginous crusts;
transitional environment.
Paleogene to Neogene siltstone with
sandstone and conglomeratic beds;
continental environment.

Pggm
Pgt Pgs
Pgm Pgc

Paleogene claystone with clay Paleogene monzodioritic, monzonitic, Paleogene tonalite to granodiorite,
Paleogene limestone and calcareous Paleogene polimictic conglomerate,
PALEOGENE sandstone to conglomeratic sienitic to grabbric rocks. late andesitic facies distributed locally.
# siltstone interbeding with chert,
sandstone and calcareous siltstone; intercalations and coal beds;
quarzitic sandstone and claystone;
continental environment.
marine environment. transitional environment.
Pgev

Paleogene chloritic phyllite,

sericitic and actinolitic to talc schist.

uKPgm uKPgt uKPgb

Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene

Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene claystone Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene claystone
pillows lavas.
with levels of sandstone and limestone; and siltstone with coal beds, local

marine environment. sandstone and ferruginous levels;

transitional environments.

#UPPER uKm uKt uKp

Upper Cretaceous sandstone, Upper Cretaceous siltstone with Upper Cretaceous tuff, aglomerate,

siliceous siltstone, shale and limestone intercalations; dacite and basalt.

uKgm
limestone beds; transitional environment. Piroclastic rocks. uKb uKj
marine environment.
Upper Cretaceous basalt Upper Cretaceous granites and Upper Cretaceous gabbro, with
with pillow lavas and granodiorites with local local sausuritization and uratilization.
edimentary intercalations. compositional changes.
PHANEROZOIC
# luKa
#
CRETACIC
luKm luKt luKev

luKb luKv Lower to upper Cretaceous phyllite, Lower to upper Cretaceous amphibolic
Lower to upper Cretaceous limestone, Lower to upper Cretaceous sandstone
quartzite, micaceous and chloritic micaceus schist, micaceus quarzite,
clay - limestone and claystone; and limestone;
Lower to upper Cretaceous Lower to upper Cretaceus dunite,
schist with marble and graphytic schist. locally marble and graphitic schist.
marine environment. transitional environments.
pillow lava. wehrlitee, ultramafic lava, diabasic dikes
and gabbro, occasionally pillows
lava, basalt and tuff.

lKm lKt
lKb lKg
lKv lKs

Lower Cretaceous limestone Lower Cretaceus quarzitic sandstone

#
LOWER and siliceous siltstone, at base of with siltstone and limestone intercalations;
Lower Cretaceous basalt
Lower Cretaceus peridotite, Lower Cretaceous dioritic, Lower Cretaceus granodiorite
with local pillow structure and granite.
locally serpentinized and serpentinite adamelitic to quarzodioritic rocks.
sequence conglomerate and claystone; transitional environments.
and sedimentary intercalations.
with schist structures.
marine environment.

MESOZOIC lKz
#
Lower Cretaceous phyllite with
intercalations of sandstones,
limestones and chert.

JlKt
JlKal

Jurassic to lower Cretaceous

Jurassic to lower Cretaceus
siltstone, conglomerate, limestone
riolitic lava and breccia.
and breccia; transitional environments.
Probably salt root of diapir structure in
the Eastern Cordillera.

Jal
Js Jgm

Jurassic riolitic and riodacitic

Jurassic dioritic to Jurassic granodiorite, granite
Jt
JURASSIC Jc Jp lava and piroclastite.
#
quartzmonzonitic rocks. and granophyre rocks.

Jurassic claystone, Jurassic sandstone and siltstone Jurassic lava and dacitic to andesitic
siltstone and sandstone; with local conglomerate intercalation; pyroclastic rocks with sandstone
transitional environments. continental environment. and claystone intercalations.

TrJp

Triassic to Jurassic volcanoclastic

rocks interfiger with sandstone and
Trf
siltstone, intruded by keratophyre dikes. Trgm
Trm
Triassic andesitic and trachytic lava.
Triassic diorite, quarzodiorite
TRIASSIC
# Triassic limestone afeccted and granodiorite.
by contact metamorphism.

uPzm uPzt

uPzgm
Upper Paleozoic quartzitic to lime Upper Paleozoic sandstone,
UPPER PALEOZOIC
# sandsrone with siltstone and conglomerate, limestone and siltstone; Upper Paleozoic diorite intruded
claystone intercalations; transitional environment. by pegmatitic dikes.
marine environment .

#
PALEOZOIC
lPzm

lPzgm
lPzev lPza lPzg lPzsi
Lower Paleozoic siliceous claystone
Lower Paleozoic granite with
LOWER PALEOZOIC and siltstone, limestone and calcareous
# sanstone; marine environment
local gneissic texture. Lower Paleozoic metamorphic rocks, Lower Paleozoic amphibolite, Lower Paleozoic granulite, amphibolite Lower Paleozoic
metasandstone, metasiltstone, slate, micaceous and actinolitic schist, and biotitic gneiss.
(In the Putumayo basin, this unit is quartzfeldparstic orthogneiss
marble, phylite and quarzite afected quarzite and marble.
interpreted from seismic information). in green schist facies.
with regional metamorphism.

NPtlPzm

Neoproterozoic to lower Paleozoic beds

interpreted from seismic information;
probable marine environment.

NPta
NPtm
NPtgm

# Neoproterozoic beds interpreted from Neoproterozoic migmatite,

Neoproterozoic para - gneiss,
micaceous schist, amphibolic
seismic information; granite and sienite.
and marble rocks.
probable marine environment. MPtg MPtis

PROTEROZOIC
Mesoproterozoic granulite, amphibolite Granitic gneiss with abundant pegmatitic

and biotitic gneiss. veins, formed during Mesoproterozoic time.

PPta

Paleoproterozoic migmatitic orthogneiss,

micaceous schist, quartzite and
amphibolitic rocks. Local basic to
intermediate magmatic bodies.