Las Lajas 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) has the name within the Aguadulce Gr and describes it as “alluvium, consolidated sediments, sandstones, corals, mangroves, conglomerates, carbonaceous shales, deltaic type depositions” (APP-B3).

Synonym:

Lithology and Thickness

See “Aguadulce Gr”

Lithology Pattern:

Sandstone

Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Río Hato Fm (part of the Aguadulce Gr)

Upper contact

None

Regional extent

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

GeoJSON

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Fossils

Age

Age Span:

Beginning stage:

Holocene

Fraction up in beginning stage:

0.67

Beginning date (Ma):

0.00

Ending stage:

Holocene

Fraction up in the ending stage:

Ending date (Ma):

0.00

Depositional setting

Depositional pattern:

Additional Information

References: Instituto Geografico Nacional (IGN) "Tommy Guardia" (1996) ’s map keeps it as the top formation within the Aguadulce Gr.

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)