BARRA HONDA (UPPER PALEOCENE – LOWER EOCENE) AND EL VIEJO (CAMPANIAN-MAASTRICHTIAN) CARBONATE PLATFORMS IN THE TEMPISQUE AREA (GUANACASTE, COSTA RICA)

• Published in: Revista Geológica de América Central
• Main Authors: Jaccard, Samuel, Münster, Marc, Baumgartner, Peter O., Baumgartner-Mora, Claudia, Denyer, Percy
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Costa Rica 2011
• Subjects: Barra; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/geologica/article/view/8550; https://doi.org/10.15517/rgac.v0i24.8550

In this preliminary paper we report on age, microfacies, microfossils and structural setting of platformlimestones, that crop out in the Río Tempisque area (Guanacaste, Costa Rica). The limestones can be attributed to twodistinct carbonate platform systems: 1. The El Viejo Platform, dated as late Ca...