Llanos Basin Sedimentary basin in Colombia
Llanos Basin Coordinates 05°24′00″N 71°40′00″W / 5.40000°N 71.66667°W / 5.40000; -71.66667 Etymology Llanos Orientales Spanish : "eastern plains"Region Orinoquía Country Colombia States Arauca , Boyacá , Casanare , Cundinamarca , Guainía , Guaviare , Meta , Norte de Santander Cities Villavicencio , Yopal On/Offshore Onshore Boundaries Colombia-Venezuela border (N), Guiana Shield (E), Vaupés Arch (S), Serranía de la Macarena (SW), Eastern Ranges (W)Part of Andean foreland basins Area 96,000 km2 (37,000 sq mi) Rivers Orinoco watershed Main rivers : Arauca , Meta , Guaviare , Vichada Basin type Foreland on rift basin Plate South American Orogeny Break-up of Pangea (Mesozoic)Andean (Cenozoic)Age Paleozoic or Jurassic Holocene Stratigraphy Stratigraphy Faults Eastern (W, bounding), Chichimene & Meta Fields Rubiales , Caño Limón , many more
The Llanos Basin (Spanish : Cuenca Llanos Eastern Llanos Basin (Spanish : Cuenca de los Llanos Orientales sedimentary basin of 96,000 square kilometres (37,000 sq mi) in northeastern Colombia . The onshore foreland on Mesozoic rift basin covers the departments of Arauca , Casanare and Meta and parts of eastern Boyacá and Cundinamarca , western Guainía , northern Guaviare and southeasternmost Norte de Santander . The northern boundary is formed by the border with Venezuela , where the basin grades into the Barinas-Apure Basin .
Description
The northeastern part of Colombia is characterized by its wavy plains, called Llanos Orientales , as part of the bigger Llanos that extend into Venezuela. The landscape is similar to a savanna and is poor in trees. It is located between the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes in the west, the Vaupés Arch in the south and the Guiana Shield in the east.
Geologically, the Llanos Basin underlies this typical landscape of the Llanos. An area where transport occurs mostly by small boats along the many rivers and the "buses of the Llanos", the Douglas DC-3 planes. The basin covers an area of 96,000 square kilometres (37,000 sq mi) and contains a stratigraphic column from the Paleozoic to recent. Several of the formations in the basins are source rocks (Gachetá , Los Cuervos , Carbonera C8 ), reservoir rocks (Mirador , Barco , Guadalupe and the uneven numbered members of Carbonera). Seals are formed by the shaly intervals (even numbered) of the Carbonera Formation, Los Cuervos, and León .
The basin is the main petroleum producing basin of Colombia, with four of the nations biggest oil fields located in the Llanos Basin. Major fields are Rubiales , Colombia's biggest and most recent giant discovery sealed by a complex of hydrodynamic processes , and Caño Limón , at the border with Venezuela.
Major concerns in the basin for the production of petroleum are biodegradation , hydrocarbon migration , fault seal capacity and water flow.
Geodynamic situation
Plate tectonic situation of northwestern South America.Nazca Plate has been subdivided into Coiba and Malpelo Plates Coiba & Malpelo Plates The country of Colombia spreads out over six tectonic plates , clockwise from north:
Caribbean Plate North Andes Plate South American Plate Malpelo Plate Coiba Plate Panama Plate The Llanos Basin is situated entirely on the South American Plate , bordering the North Andean Block or North Andean microplate in the west. The basin is one of three Colombian basins on the South American Plate, to the south the Caguán-Putumayo Basin and to the southeast the Vaupés-Amazonas Basin . The northern boundary of the Llanos Basin is formed by the Colombia-Venezuela border where the basin grades into the Barinas-Apure Basin on the Venezuelan side. The Catatumbo Basin , representing the Colombian portion of the larger Maracaibo Basin borders the Llanos Basin in the northwest and the western boundary is formed by the foothills (Piedemonte ) of the Eastern Cordillera Basin , the sedimentary basin covering the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes .
Tectonics
The basin is bound to the west by the Eastern Frontal Fault System , a 921.4 kilometres (572.5 mi) long fault system connecting the North Andes and South American Plates and thus the Eastern Cordillera Basin and the Llanos Basin. The fault system has an average strike of 042.1±19, but this orientation varies greatly along its course. The 1827 , 1834 , 1917 , 1967 , 1995 , and 2008 earthquakes were all caused by fault movement as part of the system. The faults formed because of the convergence of two plates, leading to compressional stresses that form thrust complexes. The thrust complexes and continued compression would cause uplift that developed the Andes and the associated basin. The foreland development of the basin is associated with the Eastern Cordillera caused by compressional forces forming inland subsidence. The uplift caused isostatic subsidence that would lead to the evolution of the Llanos Basin. Because of the desequilibrium caused by the uplift, the erosion and deposition rates are amplified within the near Andes and Llanos Basin. The watershed was also affected by tectonics because of different erosion rates and change in landscape.
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy of the Llanos Basin and surrounding provinces
Ma Age Paleomap Regional events Catatumbo Cordillera proximal Llanos distal Llanos Putumayo VSM Environments Maximum thickness Petroleum geology Notes
0.01 Holocene Holocene volcanismSeismic activity alluvium Overburden
1 Pleistocene Pleistocene volcanismAndean orogeny 3Glaciations Guayabo Soatá Sabana Necesidad Guayabo Gigante Alluvial to fluvial (Guayabo)550 m (1,800 ft)
2.6 Pliocene Pliocene volcanism Andean orogeny 3GABI Subachoque
5.3 Messinian Andean orogeny 3Foreland Marichuela Caimán Honda
13.5 Langhian Regional flooding León hiatus Caja León Lacustrine (León)400 m (1,300 ft) Seal
16.2 Burdigalian Miocene inundationsAndean orogeny 2 C1 Carbonera C1 Ospina Proximal fluvio-deltaic (C1) 850 m (2,790 ft) Reservoir
17.3 C2 Carbonera C2 Distal lacustrine-deltaic (C2) Seal
19 C3 Carbonera C3 Proximal fluvio-deltaic (C3) Reservoir
21 Early Miocene Pebas wetlands C4 Carbonera C4 Barzalosa Distal fluvio-deltaic (C4) Seal
23 Late Oligocene Andean orogeny 1Foredeep C5 Carbonera C5 Orito Proximal fluvio-deltaic (C5) Reservoir
25 C6 Carbonera C6 Distal fluvio-lacustrine (C6) Seal
28 Early Oligocene C7 C7 Pepino Gualanday Proximal deltaic-marine (C7) Reservoir
32 Oligo-Eocene C8 Usme C8 onlap Marine-deltaic (C8) Seal Source
35 Late Eocene Mirador Mirador Coastal (Mirador) 240 m (790 ft) Reservoir
40 Middle Eocene Regadera hiatus
45
50 Early Eocene Socha Los Cuervos Deltaic (Los Cuervos) 260 m (850 ft) Seal Source
55 Late Paleocene PETM 2000 ppm CO2 Los Cuervos Bogotá Gualanday
60 Early Paleocene SALMA Barco Guaduas Barco Rumiyaco Fluvial (Barco) 225 m (738 ft) Reservoir
65 Maastrichtian KT extinction Catatumbo Guadalupe Monserrate Deltaic-fluvial (Guadalupe) 750 m (2,460 ft) Reservoir
72 Campanian End of rifting Colón-Mito Juan
83 Santonian Villeta /Güagüaquí
86 Coniacian
89 Turonian Cenomanian-Turonian anoxic event La Luna Chipaque Gachetá hiatus Restricted marine (all) 500 m (1,600 ft) Source
93 Cenomanian Rift 2
100 Albian Une Une Caballos Deltaic (Une)500 m (1,600 ft) Reservoir
113 Aptian Capacho Fómeque Motema Yaví Open marine (Fómeque) 800 m (2,600 ft) Source (Fóm)
125 Barremian High biodiversity Aguardiente Paja Shallow to open marine (Paja) 940 m (3,080 ft) Reservoir
129 Hauterivian Rift 1 Tibú- Las Juntas hiatus Deltaic (Las Juntas)910 m (2,990 ft) Reservoir (LJun)
133 Valanginian Río Negro Cáqueza Macanal Rosablanca Restricted marine (Macanal) 2,935 m (9,629 ft) Source (Mac)
140 Berriasian Girón
145 Tithonian Break-up of Pangea Jordán Arcabuco Buenavista Saldaña Alluvial , fluvial (Buenavista)110 m (360 ft) "Jurassic"
150 Early-Mid Jurassic Passive margin 2 La Quinta Noreán hiatus Coastal tuff (La Quinta) 100 m (330 ft)
201 Late Triassic Mucuchachi Payandé
235 Early Triassic Pangea hiatus "Paleozoic"
250 Permian
300 Late Carboniferous Famatinian orogeny Cerro Neiva ()
340 Early Carboniferous Fossil fish Romer's gap Cuche (355-385) Farallones () Deltaic , estuarine (Cuche)900 m (3,000 ft)
360 Late Devonian Passive margin 1 Río Cachirí (360-419) Ambicá () Alluvial -fluvial -reef (Farallones)2,400 m (7,900 ft)
390 Early Devonian High biodiversity Floresta (387-400) Shallow marine (Floresta) 600 m (2,000 ft)
410 Late Silurian Silurian mystery
425 Early Silurian hiatus
440 Late Ordovician Rich fauna in Bolivia San Pedro (450-490) Duda ()
470 Early Ordovician First fossils Busbanzá (>470±22 ) Guape () Río Nevado ()
488 Late Cambrian Regional intrusions Chicamocha (490-515) Quetame () Ariarí () SJ del Guaviare (490-590) San Isidro ()
515 Early Cambrian Cambrian explosion
542 Ediacaran Break-up of Rodinia pre-Quetame post-Parguaza El Barro () Yellow: allochthonous basementChibcha terrane )Río Negro-Juruena Province ) Basement
600 Neoproterozoic Cariri Velhos orogeny Bucaramanga (600-1400) pre-Guaviare
800 Snowball Earth
1000 Mesoproterozoic Sunsás orogeny Ariarí (1000) La Urraca (1030-1100)
1300 Rondônia-Juruá orogeny pre-Ariarí Parguaza (1300-1400) Garzón (1180-1550)
1400 pre-Bucaramanga
1600 Paleoproterozoic Maimachi (1500-1700) pre-Garzón
1800 Tapajós orogeny Mitú (1800)
1950 Transamazonic orogeny pre-Mitú
2200 Columbia
2530 Archean Carajas-Imataca orogeny
3100 Kenorland
Sources
Legend group important formation fossiliferous formation minor formation (age in Ma) proximal Llanos (Medina)
distal Llanos (Saltarin 1A well)
Paleozoic
Cambro-Ordovician Pre-Devonian Devonian Petroleum geology
The Llanos Basin is the most prolific hydrocarbon basin of Colombia, hosting well-known petroleum deposits as Caño Limón , Rubiales and other fields. Nine of the twenty most producing oil fields of Colombia are situated in the Llanos Basin.
Fields
Based on data released in March 2018, Colombia is the 21st oil producer in the world. Daily production dropped in 2017 to 854.121 thousand barrels per day (135.7944 ×10 ^ 3 m 3 /d) . In 2016, twenty oilfields produced 66% of all oil of Colombia, listed below in bold. The total proven reserves of Colombia were 1,665.489 million barrels (264.7916 ×10 ^ 6 m 3 ) in 2016.
Major oil fields in the Llanos Basin are:
Other fields
Caño Verde
Chaparrito
Concesión
Corcel
Cravo Sur
La Gloria
Santiago
Trinidad
Valdivia Mining
Mining activities in the Llanos Basin are restricted to certain areas, resulting in less conflicts, more common with indigenous peoples in the Amazonian part of Colombia.
In San José del Guaviare platinum is mined.
Mining in the Llanos Basin and surrounding areas
Resources Map Department Municipality Mine Notes
halite Meta Restrepo Upín
gold Puerto Rico
Arauca Arauca
gold Guaviare San José del Guaviare
platinum , iron albite , andradite (var: melanite ), 'apatite ', arfvedsonite , 'biotite ', calcite , cancrinite , epidote , fluorite , 'garnet ', microcline , 'monazite ', nepheline , siderite , titanite , zircon
coal Casanare Recetor
Paleontology
Compared to many fossiliferous formations in Colombia, the Llanos Basin has been lean in fossil content. Most of the basin stratigraphy is only known from wells.
Paleozoic outcrops surrounding and perforating the planar geography have provided fossils dating back to the Cambrian ; the Duda and Ariarí Formations .
Several fossiliferous formations of contemporaneous depositional environments have provided many unique fossils indicative of paleoclimatic conditions; turtle fossils were described from Los Cuervos in the Cesar-Ranchería Basin, and the Mirador Formation in the Catatumbo Basin direct northwest of the Llanos Basin has provided many fossil flora.
Other correlative units with surrounding basins Sources
Notes
↑ More detailed: continental margin (Protero- and Paleozoic), rift basin (Mesozoic), foredeep (Paleogene and early Neogene), foreland (late Neogene to recent) ↑ The northernmost of three Colombian basins on this plate, to the south the Caguán-Putumayo and Vaupés-Amazonas Basins ↑ Depending on the definition of basement , the stratigraphic succession starts either in the Paleozoic on Proterozoic crystalline basement or Jurassic on top of both ↑ based on Duarte et al. (2019), García González et al. (2009), and geological report of Villavicencio ↑ based on Duarte et al. (2019) and the hydrocarbon potential evaluation performed by the UIS and ANH in 2009 References
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General
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Bally, A.W.; Snelson, S. (1980), "Realms of subsidence", Canadian Society for Petroleum Geology Memoir , 6 : 9– 94 Kingston, D.R.; Dishroon, C.P.; Williams, P.A. (1983), "Global Basin Classification System" (PDF) , AAPG Bulletin 67 : 2175– 2193, retrieved 2017-06-23 Klemme, H.D (1980), "Petroleum Basins - Classifications and Characteristics", Journal of Petroleum Geology 3 (2): 187– 207, Bibcode :1980JPetG...3..187K , doi :10.1111/j.1747-5457.1980.tb00982.x
Sedimentary basins of Colombia
Onshore
Western Region Central Region Eastern Region
Offshore Source Barrero, Dario; Pardo, Andrés; Vargas, Carlos A.; Martínez, Juan F. (2007). Colombian Sedimentary Basins: Nomenclature, Boundaries and Petroleum Geology, a New Proposal . ANH . pp. 1– 92.
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