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Amba Aradom Sandstone Formation
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Amba Aradom Sandstone Fm base reconstruction

Amba Aradom Sandstone Fm


Period: 
Cretaceous

Age Interval: 


Province: 
Eastern Africa: Afar-Yemen region

Type Locality and Naming

Synonym:


Lithology and Thickness

Fluvial, reach a thickness of about 500m


Lithology Pattern: 
Coarse_grained sandstone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Upper contact

Afar Traps Fm (unconformable)

Regional extent

Afar region


GeoJSON

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Fossils


Age 


Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Tithonian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.5

    Beginning date (Ma): 
146.17

    Ending stage: 
Turonian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0

    Ending date (Ma):  
93.90

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Rebecca Bobick (and Wen Du), modified from Bosworth, W., "The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Basins", Journal of African Earth Sciences 43 (2005) 334-378