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Antalo Limestone Afar Basin General Lithology Formation
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Antalo Limestone Afar Basin General Lithology Fm base reconstruction

Antalo Limestone 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

Antalo Limestone Fm:
LITHOLOGY = The Antalo limestone reaches over 2400 m
CALIBRATION = Base of 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: 
Limestone

Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Upper contact

Regional extent


GeoJSON

{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"MultiPolygon","coordinates":[[[[42,14],[41,13],[42,12],[43,13],[42,14]]]]}}

Fossils


Age 


Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Bathonian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
168.17

    Ending stage: 
Tithonian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.59

    Ending date (Ma):  
145.61

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  

Additional Information

long: 42 lat: 13

Compiler: