Historical memory of the geology of Antioquia: Emil Grosse and The Carboniferous Tertiary of Antioquia
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Amagá Formation, geological heritage, museum of geosciences, Colombia
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The Carboniferous Tertiary of Antioquia (TCA), published by Dr. Jakob Emil Grosse in 1926, is one of the most influential scientific results of the Ordinance 16 of 1918 of the Honorable Departmental Assembly of Antioquia. The work began with the main objective of quantifying the coal reserves of Antioquia, and showing their surface extension on a scale of 1:50 000, in a region that includes the Arma river to the Puente de Occidente and from the western side of the Cauca River to the Romeral lineament and the plains of Ovejas. As a result, extensive work comprising petrological, structural, and economic geology studies was published in a manuscript published in Spanish and German, plus four attached maps, including coal, gold, silver, kaolin, and carbonate mines, among others. In the present work, the four TCA maps were digitized at a scale of 1:50 000 with Bessel 1841 datum and created a unified file in .kml format, which can be used directly in field trips, via Google Earth on cell phones, tablets, or computers. The metadata associates the information in the TCA with the Servicio Geológico Colombiano for the year 2015. In addition, 480 thin sections were scanned, which were donated by Dr. Grosse to the Escuela Nacional de Minas and today are in the Museum of Geosciences of the Faculty of Mines of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. The geospatial information contained in each thin section was interpreted and georeferenced, obtaining, as a result, a list with north and west geographic coordinates, in degrees, minutes, and seconds. This unpublished information is available in the supplementary material of this article. Finally, nine field trips were made to the places referenced in 23 photographs of the TCA between 1920 and 1923 to take their current equivalent and thus carry out a multi-temporal analysis of the TCA.
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Felipe Velásquez, Department of Geology and Millenium Nucleus for Metal Tracing along Subduction, FCFM, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Geological Engineer from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, with a Master's degree in Geology from the University of Brasilia, Brazil. Experience in Fe-Ti-V deposits hosted in mafic and ultramafic rocks in NE Brazil, and also as an exploration geologist in an Au-Ag epithermal deposit for Continental Gold Inc., in the northern Andes Cordillera. On August 2019, he started Ph.D. studies at the University of Chile, working in a carbonatite-hosted niobium deposit in Central Brazil, under the supervision of Prof. Martin Reich and the co-supervision of Dr. Pedro Cordeiro from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Marion Weber Scharff, Department of Geosciences and Environment, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia
A geologist from Universidad Eafit in Medellín, Colombia, with a Ph.D. in Geochemistry from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín campus. Her research activities include metamorphic petrology, especially high pressure and mantle rocks, geochemistry applied to the petrogenesis of igneous rocks in the Northern Andes and, in recent years, she has been developing multidisciplinary projects in archeometry, aimed at the determination of pre-Hispanic exchange routes in the northern part of South America and the Caribbean.
Verónica Botero Fernández, Department of Geosciences and Environment, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia
She is a Civil Engineer from Universidad EAFIT in Medellín, Colombia, with a Master of Science in geological cartography from the International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation, in Enschede, Holland, and a Ph.D. in Science from the University of Utrecht, Holland. She is currently the dean of the Faculty of Mines of the National University of Colombia, Medellín campus, and associate professor of the Department of Geosciences and Environment in the areas of geoinformation sciences, geospatial analysis, and digital image processing.
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