PB - PUBLISHER: [International Geological Congress]. [location varies], International. 2000.
RP - RESEARCH PROGRAM: IGCP (International Geological Correlation Programme | IGC (International Geological Congress)
CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: International
PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2000
CN - CONFERENCE INFORMATION: Brazil 2000; 31st international geological congress. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Aug. 6-17, 2000.
LA - LANGUAGE: English
DE - DESCRIPTORS: applications-; baseline-studies; Bogota-Colombia; case-studies; chemical-elements; Colombia-; data-acquisition; data-processing; ecology-; enrichment-; environmental-analysis; faults-; geochemical-surveys; geochemistry-; human-activity; IGCP-; INGEOMINAS-; mapping-; mineral-exploration; programs-; South-America; surveys-; zoning-
CC - CATEGORY CODES: 02A-General-geochemistry
DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Abstract; Serial; Conference-Document
BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic
MC - MAP COORDINATES: LAT: N043000; N050000; LONG: W0740000; W0743000.
NN - ANNOTATION: File G1404031.PDF. IGCP Project No. 259 | 360.
ME - SOURCE MEDIUM: compact disc
RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute.
CO - CODEN: IGABBY
AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-006040
UD - UPDATE CODE: 200402
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TI - TITLE: The eastern Pacific Ocean during the last glacial maximum.
AU - AUTHORS: Martinez-J-I; Urrego-L-E; Bedoya-G
AF - AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia
BK - BOOK TITLE: In: Brazil 2000; 31st international geological congress; abstracts volume.
BA - BOOK AUTHORS: Anonymous
CA - CORPORATE AUTHOR: Quaternary Paleoceanography Team,
SO - SOURCE: International Geological Congress, Abstracts = Congres Geologique International, Resumes. 31; Pages ; unpaginated. 2000.
PB - PUBLISHER: [International Geological Congress]. [location varies], International. 2000.
RP - RESEARCH PROGRAM: IGC (International Geological Congress)
CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: International
PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2000
CN - CONFERENCE INFORMATION: Brazil 2000; 31st international geological congress. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Aug. 6-17, 2000.
LA - LANGUAGE: English
DE - DESCRIPTORS: algae-; Atlantic-Ocean; benthonic-taxa; Cenozoic-; climate-change; Coccolithophoraceae-; cores-; data-bases; data-processing; deep-sea-environment; East-Pacific; Foraminifera-; glacial-environment; glaciomarine-environment; Invertebrata-; last-glacial-maximum; marine-environment; marine-sediments; microfossils-; miospores-; modern-analogs; nannofossils-; Pacific-Ocean; paleo-oceanography; paleoclimatology-; palynomorphs-; Panama-Basin; planktonic-taxa; Plantae-; pollen-; Protista-; Quaternary-; Radiolaria-; reconstruction-; salinity-; sea-water; sea-surface-temperature; sediments-; upper-Quaternary
CC - CATEGORY CODES: 24-Quaternary-geology
DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Abstract; Serial; Conference-Document
BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic
NN - ANNOTATION: File G2002063.PDF.
ME - SOURCE MEDIUM: compact disc
RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute.
CO - CODEN: IGABBY
AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-004217
UD - UPDATE CODE: 200402
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TI - TITLE: Late Pleistocene benthonic Foraminifera from the Panama Basin, eastern Pacific Ocean.
AU - AUTHORS: Betancur-J; Martinez-J-I; Ruiz-D; Bedoya-G
AF - AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Universidad EAFIT, Departamento de Geologia, Medellin, Colombia
BK - BOOK TITLE: In: Brazil 2000; 31st international geological congress; abstracts volume.
BA - BOOK AUTHORS: Anonymous
CA - CORPORATE AUTHOR: Quaternary Paleoceanography Team,
SO - SOURCE: International Geological Congress, Abstracts = Congres Geologique International, Resumes. 31; Pages ; unpaginated. 2000.
PB - PUBLISHER: [International Geological Congress]. [location varies], International. 2000.
RP - RESEARCH PROGRAM: ODP (Ocean Drilling Program | IGC (International Geological Congress)
CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: International
PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2000
CN - CONFERENCE INFORMATION: Brazil 2000; 31st international geological congress. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Aug. 6-17, 2000.
LA - LANGUAGE: English
DE - DESCRIPTORS: benthonic-taxa; Cenozoic-; cores-; East-Pacific; Foraminifera-; glacial-environment; glaciomarine-environment; Invertebrata-; Leg-111; marine-environment; marine-sediments; microfossils-; Ocean-Drilling-Program; ODP-Site-677; Pacific-Ocean; paleo-oceanography; paleoecology-; Panama-Basin; Pleistocene-; Protista-; Quaternary-; sediments-; upper-Pleistocene
CC - CATEGORY CODES: 24-Quaternary-geology
DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Abstract; Serial; Conference-Document
BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic
MC - MAP COORDINATES: LAT: N011203; N011209; LONG: W0834413; W0834414.
NN - ANNOTATION: File G2002037.PDF.
ME - SOURCE MEDIUM: compact disc
RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute.
CO - CODEN: IGABBY
AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-004197
UD - UPDATE CODE: 200402
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TI - TITLE: Gravimetric and tectonic interpretation of the La Virginia-Las Animas profile in south western Colombia.
AU - AUTHORS: Bermudez-A; Garzon-M
AF - AUTHOR AFFILIATION: INGEOMINAS, Geoscientific, Mining, Environmental and Nuclear, Research and Information Institute, Bogota, Colombia
BK - BOOK TITLE: In: Brazil 2000; 31st international geological congress; abstracts volume.
BA - BOOK AUTHORS: Anonymous
SO - SOURCE: International Geological Congress, Abstracts = Congres Geologique International, Resumes. 31; Pages ; unpaginated. 2000.
PB - PUBLISHER: [International Geological Congress]. [location varies], International. 2000.
RP - RESEARCH PROGRAM: IGC (International Geological Congress)
CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: International
PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2000
CN - CONFERENCE INFORMATION: Brazil 2000; 31st international geological congress. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Aug. 6-17, 2000.
LA - LANGUAGE: English
DE - DESCRIPTORS: Choco-Block; Colombia-; exotic-terranes; geophysical-methods; geophysical-profiles; geophysical-surveys; gravity-methods; La-Virginia-Colombia; Las-Animas-Colombia; magnetic-methods; South-America; southwestern-Colombia; surveys-; tectonics-; terranes-
CC - CATEGORY CODES: 16-Structural-geology; 20-Applied-geophysics
DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Abstract; Serial; Conference-Document
BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic
NN - ANNOTATION: File G1703014.PDF.
ME - SOURCE MEDIUM: compact disc
RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute.
CO - CODEN: IGABBY
AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-004130
UD - UPDATE CODE: 200402
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TI - TITLE: Paleogeography of Miocene western Amazonia; isotopic composition of molluscan shells constrains the influence of marine incursions.
AU - AUTHORS: Vonhof-H-B; Wesselingh-F-P; Kaandorp-R-J-G; Davies-G-R; van-Hinte-J-E; Guerrero-J; Rasanen-M; Romero-Pittman-L; Ranzi-A
AF - AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Vrije Universiteit, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands
SO - SOURCE: Geological Society of America Bulletin. 115; 8, Pages 983-993. 2003.
PB - PUBLISHER: Geological Society of America (GSA). Boulder, CO, United States. 2003.
CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: United-States
PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2003
LA - LANGUAGE: English
AB - ABSTRACT: Strontium, oxygen, and carbon isotope compositions of well-preserved mollusks (bivalves) indicate a dominantly freshwater depositional setting for the lower Miocene-upper Miocene Pebas Formation in Western Amazonia. Molluscan (super 87) Sr/ (super 86) Sr ratios identify different freshwater sources. Andean runoff was the dominant water source in Miocene Western Amazonia, though there was occasional influx of waters from cratonic catchments. At only one stratigraphic level, isotope signals indicate increased (mesohaline) aquatic salinities, in concert with a clearly more saline molluscan faunal assemblage. Strontium isotope-based salinity estimates are surprisingly low when compared to other paleosalinity estimates based on the interpretation of (ichno)faunal assemblages and sedimentological structures. We propose that these seemingly contrasting observations can be unified if Miocene Western Amazonia was occupied by a long-lived (lacustrine) wetland system with a restricted connection, via the Los Llanos Basin, to the Caribbean Sea. Abundant runoff supplied fresh water to this system, which effectively blocked the influx of saline waters through the restricted marine connection to the north. Much like modern Lake Maracaibo, such a system could have been the site of microtidal currents and thus could have hosted brackish-water fauna in a dominantly freshwater depositional system.
DE - DESCRIPTORS: alkaline-earth-metals; Amazon-Basin; assemblages-; biogenic-structures; biostratigraphy-; biozones-; Brazil-; C-13-C-12; carbon-; Cenozoic-; Colombia-; geochemistry-; Invertebrata-; isotope-ratios; isotopes-; lebensspuren-; metals-; Miocene-; Mollusca-; Neogene-; O-18-O-16; oxygen-; paleoenvironment-; paleogeography-; paleohydrology-; paleosalinity-; Pebas-Formation; Peru-; reconstruction-; sea-level-changes; sedimentary-structures; shells-; South-America; Sr-87-Sr-86; stable-isotopes; strontium-; Tertiary-
CC - CATEGORY CODES: 12-Stratigraphy; 02D-Isotope-geochemistry
DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Serial
BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic
IL - ILLUSTRATION: Refs: 32; illus. incl. strat. cols., 3 tables, sketch map.
RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute. Reference includes data supplied by the Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, United States
IS - ISSN: 0016-7606
CO - CODEN: BUGMAF
AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-003461
UD - UPDATE CODE: 200402
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TI - TITLE: The emerald; Colombia's gem folklore, aid, and legend.
AU - AUTHORS: Salloum-Habeeb
AF - AUTHOR AFFILIATION: 58 Langbourne Place, Don Mills, ON, Canada
SO - SOURCE: Canadian Rockhound (Winnipeg). 7; 2, 2003.
PB - PUBLISHER: canadianrockhound.com. Winnipeg, MB, Canada. 2003.
CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: Canada
PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2003
LA - LANGUAGE: English
DE - DESCRIPTORS: beryl-; Colombia-; emerald-; gems-; history-; popular-geology; ring-silicates; silicates-; South-America
CC - CATEGORY CODES: 01A-General-mineralogy
DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Serial
BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic
NN - ANNOTATION: Accessed on Dec. 1, 2003.
IL - ILLUSTRATION: Refs: 7; illus.
ME - SOURCE MEDIUM: WWW
RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute.
IS - ISSN: 1495-2963
UR - URL: (Full text) http://www.canadianrockhound.com/2003/02/cr0307201_emerald.html
AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-003168
UD - UPDATE CODE: 200401
XURL - URLs, etc : URL; URL-ITEM (UR)
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TI - TITLE: Additional bats from the middle Miocene La Venta fauna of Colombia.
AU - AUTHORS: Czaplewski-Nicolas-J; Masanaru-Takai; Naeher-Tiffany-M; Shigehara-Nobuo; Setoguchi-Takeshi
AF - AUTHOR AFFILIATION: University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, OK, United States
SO - SOURCE: Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. 27; 103, Pages 263-282. 2003.
PB - PUBLISHER: Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. Bogota, Colombia. 2003.
CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: Colombia
PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2003
LA - LANGUAGE: English
LS - LANGUAGE OF SUMMARY: Spanish
AB - ABSTRACT: By screenwashing sedimentary rocks from three localities in the middle Miocene Villavieja Formation, Rio Magdalena valley, Huila Department, Colombia, we collected several fossils that add to the knowledge of bats in the ca. 12-13 million-year-old La Venta fauna. The new specimens represent an emballonurid, a noctilionid, three phyllostomids, a thyropterid, three molossids, and a probable vespertilionid, and they came from a level (Monkey Beds) bracketed by dates of 12.5 million and 12.2 million years. The first known upper molars of Notonycteris magdalenensis reaffirm this species' close relationship with Vampyrum and Chrotopterus, as does a new species of Notonycteris based on two lower molars and characterized by smaller size than N. magdalenensis. Two upper molars of a primitive nectar-feeding bat represent another new taxon of Phyllostomidae (Glossophaginae), a new genus and species which provides the only Tertiary record for this group. An additional but not yet identifiable molossid adds to the bat list, and an unidentified probable vespertilionid is the first of its family recorded in the fauna. The La Venta fauna now includes 14 species of bats, several of which are indeterminate.
DE - DESCRIPTORS: anatomy-; assemblages-; biostratigraphy-; Cenozoic-; Chiroptera-; Chordata-; Colombia-; Emballonuridae-; Eutheria-; fluvial-environment; Honda-Group; Huila-Colombia; La-Venta-fauna; La-Victoria-Formation; lacustrine-environment; Magdalena-Valley; Mammalia-; middle-Miocene; Miocene-; Molossidae-; morphology-; Neogene-; paleoecology-; Phyllostomidae-; range-; sedimentary-rocks; sediments-; South-America; stratigraphic-units; taxonomy-; teeth-; Tertiary-; Tetrapoda-; Theria-; Thyropteridae-; Vertebrata-; Villavieja-Formation
CC - CATEGORY CODES: 11-Vertebrate-paleontology; 12-Stratigraphy
DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Serial
BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic
MC - MAP COORDINATES: LAT: N060000; N080000; LONG: W0740000; W0763000.
NN - ANNOTATION: Includes appendices.
IL - ILLUSTRATION: Refs: 57; illus. incl. 2 tables.
RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute.
IS - ISSN: 0370-3908
CO - CODEN: RCCFAO
AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-003163
UD - UPDATE CODE: 200401
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TI - TITLE: Breve historia de la cartografia geologica en el departamento de Antioquia, Colombia
Translated Title: Brief history of geological mapping in the Antioquia Department, Colombia.
AU - AUTHORS: Castro-P; Hermelin-M
AF - AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Universidad EAFIT, Geologia Ambiental, Medellin, Colombia
SO - SOURCE: Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. 27; 103, Pages 245-261. 2003.
PB - PUBLISHER: Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. Bogota, Colombia. 2003.
CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: Colombia
PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2003
LA - LANGUAGE: Spanish
LS - LANGUAGE OF SUMMARY: English
AB - ABSTRACT: Despite the mining tradition of the Department of Antioquia, its systematic geological mapping only started, by regional initiative, at the beginning of the twentieth century; these activities were carried out by the National Scientific Commission, the Antioquia Railways, the National School of Mines and the National Geological Survey and their successors.
DE - DESCRIPTORS: alluvium-; Antioquia-Colombia; areal-geology; cartography-; clastic-sediments; Colombia-; education-; geomorphology-; gold-ores; government-agencies; history-; human-activity; Magdalena-Valley; mapping-; metal-ores; mineral-inventory; mining-; placers-; sediments-; South-America; stratigraphic-units; stratigraphy-
CC - CATEGORY CODES: 14-Geologic-maps
DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Serial
BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic
MC - MAP COORDINATES: LAT: N060000; N080000; LONG: W0740000; W0770000.
IL - ILLUSTRATION: Refs: 113; illus. incl. 1 table, geol. sketch maps.
RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute.
IS - ISSN: 0370-3908
CO - CODEN: RCCFAO
AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-003162
UD - UPDATE CODE: 200401
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TI - TITLE: Cubiertas piroclasticas Cenozoicas en la parte septentrional del valle medio del Magdalena y mesas de Santander
Translated Title: Cenozoic pyroclastic sediments in the north-central Magdalena Valley and the Santander mesas.
AU - AUTHORS: Garvis-Vergara-Jaime; Mojica-Corchuelo-Diego
SO - SOURCE: Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. 27; 103, Pages 217-223. 2003.
PB - PUBLISHER: Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. Bogota, Colombia. 2003.
CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: Colombia
PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2003
LA - LANGUAGE: Spanish
LS - LANGUAGE OF SUMMARY: English
AB - ABSTRACT: In the northern part of the middle Magdalena river valley and in the Santander tablelands, there are volcanic rocks, whose relation with the Cretaceous sediments has not been clearly understood. In some sectors they have been mistaken Cenozoic sediments. In other places, they have been mapped as volcanic rocks of Jura-triassic age or they are without age estimates and in some sector of the cordilleran region in Santander, they received names of Cretaceous sedimentary formations.
DE - DESCRIPTORS: Andes-; Bucaramanga-Colombia; Cenozoic-; Colombia-; Cretaceous-; Eastern-Cordillera; erosion-features; geomorphology-; Giron-Formation; granites-; igneous-rocks; imagery-; intrusions-; lahars-; lithostratigraphy-; Los-Santos-Formation; Magdalena-Valley; mass-movements; mesas-; Mesozoic-; mineral-composition; plutonic-rocks; pyroclastics-; remote-sensing; rhyolitic-composition; Santander-Colombia; satellite-methods; sediments-; South-America; stratigraphic-units; Tambor-Formation; textures-; volcanic-rocks
CC - CATEGORY CODES: 05A-Igneous-and-metamorphic-petrology; 12-Stratigraphy
DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Serial
BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic
MC - MAP COORDINATES: LAT: N060000; N080000; LONG: W0720000; W0750000.
IL - ILLUSTRATION: Refs: 7; illus. incl. 2 plates, geol. sketch maps.
RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute.
IS - ISSN: 0370-3908
CO - CODEN: RCCFAO
AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-003161
UD - UPDATE CODE: 200401
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TI - TITLE: La formacion del istmo de Panama; su incidencia en Colombia
Translated Title: Formation of the Panama Isthmus and its impacts in Colombia.
AU - AUTHORS: de-Porta-Jaime
AF - AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Universidad de Barcelona, Facultad de Geologia, Barcelona, Spain
SO - SOURCE: Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. 27; 103, Pages 191-216. 2003.
PB - PUBLISHER: Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. Bogota, Colombia. 2003.
CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: Colombia
PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2003
LA - LANGUAGE: Spanish
LS - LANGUAGE OF SUMMARY: English
AB - ABSTRACT: The first outlines of the Isthmus of Panama began in the middle Miocene. Its formation had impacts on paleography. The elevation of the Cordillera Oriental, which began between 12.9 and 11.8 million years ago, had its maximum intensity between 5 and 2.5 million years ago, causing changes in the hydrographic networks of the Amazon, Orinoco and Magdalena rivers. The record of a cold epoch in the Sabana de Bogota, dated at 2.7 million years ago, may correspond to a glacial stage of the upper Pliocene. The formation of the Itsthmus led to the great faunal exchange between North and South America. During the Pleistocene, along the Caribbean coasts of Colombia, a series of coral reefs, dated between 300,000 and 124,000 years, formed.
DE - DESCRIPTORS: Andes-; Anthozoa-; assemblages-; Atlantic-Ocean; basins-; benthonic-taxa; biostratigraphy-; biozones-; Buliminacea-; Caribbean-Plate; Caribbean-region; Caribbean-Sea; Cenozoic-; Central-America; circulation-; Cocos-Plate; Coelenterata-; Colombia-; deformation-; Eastern-Cordillera; faults-; Foraminifera-; geomorphology-; Globigerinacea-; Globorotalia-; Globorotaliidae-; historical-geology; Invertebrata-; microfossils-; Miocene-; Mollusca-; Neogene-; nomenclature-; North-Atlantic; Pacific-Ocean; paleoclimatology-; paleoenvironment-; paleogeography-; Panama-; Panama-Isthmus; planktonic-taxa; plate-tectonics; Pleistocene-; Pliocene-; Protista-; Quaternary-; Radiolaria-; reefs-; Rotaliina-; sedimentary-rocks; South-America; stratigraphic-units; tectonics-; Tertiary-; uplifts-; Uvigerina-; Uvigerinidae-; Venezuela-
CC - CATEGORY CODES: 12-Stratigraphy
DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Serial
BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic
MC - MAP COORDINATES: LAT: N060000; N100000; LONG: W0720000; W0810000.
IL - ILLUSTRATION: Refs: 128; illus. incl. 4 tables, geol. sketch maps.
RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute.
IS - ISSN: 0370-3908
CO - CODEN: RCCFAO
AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-003160
UD - UPDATE CODE: 200401
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TI - TITLE: Supervivencia de mastodontes, megaterios y presencia del hombre en el valle del Magdalena (Colombia) entre 6000 y 5000 AP
Translated Title: Survival of mastodons, ground sloths, and human activity in the Magdalena Valley between 6000 and 5000 BP.
AU - AUTHORS: Correal-U-Gonzalo; van-der-Hammen-Thomas
AF - AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, COL, Colombia
SO - SOURCE: Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. 27; 103, Pages 159-164. 2003.
PB - PUBLISHER: Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales. Bogota, Colombia. 2003.
CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: Colombia
PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2003
LA - LANGUAGE: Spanish
LS - LANGUAGE OF SUMMARY: English
AB - ABSTRACT: An analysis of the stratigraphy and radiocarbon datings of an excavation in the El Totumo site (Tocaima, Cundinamarca, Colombia), where bones of Mastodon and Megatherium were found associated with stone artifacts of the El Abra type, brings to the conclusion that man and megafauna still cohabited in the area between 6000 and 5000 years before present. A stone statue of the early San Agustin Culture (perhaps of the ninth century before Christ), shows a face or mask that seems to represent an elephant; this may mean that they had a knowledge of the existence of Mastodons still in that time, or of an ancestral memory (cultural/tradition) of an earlier period.
DE - DESCRIPTORS: absolute-age; archaeological-sites; archaeology-; C-14; carbon-; Cenozoic-; Chordata-; Colombia-; dates-; Edentata-; El-Totumo-Colombia; Eutheria-; Gastropoda-; Holocene-; Hominidae-; Homo-; Homo-sapiens; human-activity; Invertebrata-; isotopes-; Magdalena-Valley; Mammalia-; Mastodon-; Mastodontidae-; Mastodontoidea-; Megatheriidae-; middle-Holocene; Mollusca-; paleoecology-; paleoenvironment-; Primates-; Proboscidea-; Quaternary-; radioactive-isotopes; sediments-; South-America; stratigraphic-units; Tetrapoda-; Theria-; Vertebrata-
CC - CATEGORY CODES: 24-Quaternary-geology; 11-Vertebrate-paleontology
DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Serial
BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic
IL - ILLUSTRATION: Refs: 5; illus. incl. 1 plate.
RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute.
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