The age of the limestone is Cretaceous (Mostly Aptian to Albian). The
uplift (1-2km) of all of northern Central America date to between 3
and 8 m.y. ago (see Rogers et al., 2002 Geology). pdf is on Honduras
Geology website.
-Rob Rogers
--- In cenamgeology@yahoogroups.com, "Ferdinando Didonna"
<directorejecutivo@...> wrote:
>
> Hello, we are exploring caves in Olancho and we would like to know
the
> period of rise up of the mountain out of the oceans.
> We would like to quote eventual references in our speleological
> publications.
>
> Thank You
>
> Ferdinando Didonna
> GEA www.anthros.org
>