The Tahamí ( es, Terreno Tahamí, ''TT'') or Tahamí-Panzenú Terrane is one of the geological provinces (

terrane In geology, a terrane (; in full, a tectonostratigraphic terrane) is a crust fragment formed on a tectonic plate (or broken off from it) and accreted or " sutured" to crust lying on another plate. The crustal block or fragment preserves its ow ...

s) of

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the ...

. The terrane, dating to the Permo-

Triassic The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 Mya. The Triassic is the first and shortest per ...

, is situated on the North Andes Plate. The contact with the

Chibcha The Muisca (also called Chibcha) are an indigenous people and culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest. The people spoke Muysccubun, a language of the Chibchan lan ...

, Arquía and Quebradagrande Terranes is formed by the megaregional

Romeral Fault System The Romeral Fault System ( es, Sistema de Fallas (de) Romeral) is a megaregional system of major parallel and anastomosing faults in the Central Ranges of the Colombian Andes and the Cauca, Amagá, and Sinú-San Jacinto Basins. The system spans ...

.Paris et al., 2000, pp.20–26 A tiny terrane is located at the contact with the Quebradagrande Terrane; Anacona Terrane.Gómez Tapias et al., 2015, p.209 The terrane is offset along the regional

Bucaramanga-Santa Marta Fault The Bucaramanga-Santa Marta Fault (BSMF, BSF) or Bucaramanga-Santa Marta Fault System ( es, (Sistema de) Falla(s) de Bucaramanga-Santa Marta) is a major oblique transpressional sinistral strike-slip fault (wrench fault) in the departments of Magd ...

from the

Caribbean The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean ...

La Guajira La Guajira () is a department of Colombia. It occupies most of the Guajira Peninsula in the northeast region of the country, on the Caribbean Sea and bordering Venezuela, at the northernmost tip of South America. The capital city of the departm ...

and

Chibcha Terrane The Chibcha Terrane ( es, Terreno Chibcha, ''TCH''), named after Chibcha, is the largest of the geological provinces (terranes) of Colombia. The terrane, the oldest explored domains of which date to the Meso- to Neoproterozoic, is situated on the ...

s,Paris et al., 2000, p.10 and by the regional Oca Fault with the Chibcha Terrane.Paris et al., 2000, p.9

Etymology

The terrane is, as the Chibcha Terrane, named after an

indigenous people Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...

from Antioquia; the

-speaking , part of the greater Nutabe group. Panzenú refers to the Zenú civilization, that thrived from about 200 BCE to 1600 CE in the Sinú river basin.

Reinterpretation

A study performed by Mora Bohórquez et al. in 2017 showed no basement variation between the

San Lucas basement underlying the

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(VIM) and the SNSM basement to the east of the Santa Marta Fault. The authors redefined the contacts between the different terranes, using the names Calima Terrane for the coastal portion of the Caribbean Terrane ( San Jacinto and Sinú foldbelts) and Tahamí-Panzenú Terrane for the Tahamí Terrane.Mora Bohórquez et al., 2017, p.20

Subdivision

Complexes

* Antioquia Batholith ** Romeral **

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** Pueblito ** Montegrande ** Palmitas ** Ayura Montebello ** Medellín Dunite ** Ceja ** Medellín Amphibolite ** San Isidro * Cambumbia * Úrsula *

Amagá Amagá () is a town and municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia. It is part of the subregion of Southwestern Antioquia Southwestern Antioquia is a subregion in the Colombian Department of Antioquia. The region is made up of 24 municipa ...

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* Alto de Minas * Norosí * Jonjoncito

Volcanoes

* Nevado del Ruiz * Nevado del Tolima *

Doña Juana Doña Juana ( es, Volcán Doña Juana) is a stratovolcano, located within the Doña Juana-Cascabel Volcanic Complex National Natural Park ( es, Parque Nacional Natural Complejo Volcánico Doña Juana-Cascabel) in Nariño, Colombia. With a ...

Galeras Galeras (Urcunina among the 16th-century indigenous people) is an Andean stratovolcano in the Colombian department of Nariño, near the departmental capital Pasto. Its summit rises above sea level. It has erupted frequently since the Spanish ...

Ranges

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* Macuira * SNSM

Basins

* Cocinetas * Lower Magdalena (VIM)

Faults

''bounding faults in bold'' * Bucaramanga-Santa Marta (BSF) * Romeral (RFS) **

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** Buesaco-Aranda ** Córdoba-Navarco **

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** Paraíso ** Piendamó ** Rosas-Julumito * Bagre NorteParis et al., 2000, p.29 * CimitarraParis et al., 2000, p.30 * CucuanaParis et al., 2000, p.49 * Mulato-GetudoParis et al., 2000, p.31 * Otú NorteParis et al., 2000, p.28 * Palestina * Espiritú SantoParis et al., 2000, p.27 * Uramita

Gallery

File:NorthAndesPlate.png, North Andes Plate File:Mapa de Amenaza Sísmica de Colombia.png, Seismic activity map File:Chibchan_languages_distribution.png, Chibcha language distribution
Tahamí are listed as Nutabes (14) File:Colombia- Zenú indigenous culture 200BC - 1600AD.png, Map of Zenú civilization in NW Colombia

References

Bibliography

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Terranes In geology, a terrane (; in full, a tectonostratigraphic terrane) is a crust fragment formed on a tectonic plate (or broken off from it) and accreted or " sutured" to crust lying on another plate. The crustal block or fragment preserves its own ...

Geology of the Andes Chibchan languages