Cartografía Geológica en la Cantera centro Minero Coohornical en el Municipio de Distracción, La Guajira, Colombia.

Abstract

This business practice project has been developed with the support of the CorpoGuajira entity from the southern territorial direction in the department of La Guajira, proposals have been endorsed that are focused on expanding and strengthening the geological mapping of the department, therefore the main focus of this project is the recognition of geological units present in the area identified as ARE No. TJO-17401 delimited and defined by the National Mining Agency which includes the Coohornical mining center located in the township of Hornitos, municipality of Distraction, for which the main focus of this project is the recognition of the geological units present in the area identified as ARE. º TJO-17401 delimited and defined by the National Mining Agency, which includes the Coohornical mining center located in the village of Hornitos, municipality of Distracción, for which was carried out the collection, bibliographic analysis and then the use of this information collected in the field and pre-field stages, the geological mapping was generated to capture the information obtained on a map at a scale of 1:2. 500 by means of ArcGIS software, for the base cartography was taken from the 21IC plate at scale 1:25,000 of the Instituto Geografico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC), integrating the information acquired in the field, as well as the use of geospatial processes and interpretation by means of remote sensor images. Based on the above, the following units were identified: Golero Rhyolite Unit (Jg), which corresponds to a succession of volcanic rocks of acidic composition, the Unit of great interest in the area, undifferentiated Cretaceous Limestones and Shales (Kcsi) and Quaternary Alluvial Deposits (Qal), lithologically speaking, these deposits are composed of fragments of sedimentary rocks from the weathering of limestone rocks present in the study area.