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Compiled by: Jacques LeBlanc (2021), Stratigraphic Lexicon: The Onshore Cenozoic Sedimentary Formations of The Republic of Panama. Biosis: Biological Systems, vol. 2/1, 1-173. https://doi.org/10.37819/biosis.002.01.0095(or via https://sites.google.com/site/leblancjacques).

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Boca de Chucara Formation
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Boca de Chucara Fm base reconstruction

Boca de Chucara Fm

Period: 
Quaternary

Age Interval: 
Holocene to Recent - Ministerio de Comercio e Industrias (1991)


Province: 
Tonosí & Azuero basin

Type Locality and Naming

Ministerio de Comercio e Industrias (1991) includes the name as the basal formation of the Aguadulce Gr and describes it as “alluvium, sand, carbonaceous shales, organic deposits with pyrite, deltaic type”. (APP-B3).

Synonym:


Lithology and Thickness

See “Aguadulce Gr”. Occurs in Aguadulce Plain, Coclé province.

The formation is not present on the 1996 map of the Instituto Geografico Nacional (IGN) "Tommy Guardia", suggesting that the term is now obsolete.


Lithology Pattern: 
Coarse-grained sandstone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Upper contact

Río Hato Fm (part of the Aguadulce Gr)

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils


Age 


Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Holocene

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
0.01

    Ending stage: 
Holocene

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
.033

    Ending date (Ma):  
0.01

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information

References: Map of Ministerio de Comercio e Industrias (1991)


Compiler:  

Jacques LeBlanc (2021), Stratigraphic Lexicon: The Onshore Cenozoic Sedimentary Formations of The Republic of Panama. Biosis: Biological Systems, 2(1), 173 pp. https://doi.org/10.37819/biosis.002.01.0095 (or via https://sites.google.com/site/leblancjacques)