Amba Aradom Sandstone Afar Basin General Lithology Fm
Period:
Jurassic
Age Interval:
Province:
Afar-Yemen Region
Type Locality and Naming
Column: Afar Basin General Lithology
Lithology and Thickness
Amba Aradom Sandstone Fm.:
LITHOLOGY = Fluvial, reach a thickness of about 500m
CALIBRATION = 90% up in the Tithonian-Bathonian.
REFERENCE = Bosworth, W., "The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Basins", Journal of African Earth Sciences 43 (2005) 334-378
LITHOLOGY = Fluvial, reach a thickness of about 500m
CALIBRATION = 90% up in the Tithonian-Bathonian.
REFERENCE = Bosworth, W., "The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Basins", Journal of African Earth Sciences 43 (2005) 334-378
Lithology Pattern:
Coarse-grained sandstone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Upper contact
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Tithonian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.59
Beginning date (Ma):
145.61
Ending stage:
Turonian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.06
Ending date (Ma):
93.61
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
long: 42 lat: 13
Compiler: