Benin Gr
Period:
Paleogene, Neogene, Quaternary
Age Interval:
Province:
Western Africa: Niger Delta
Type Locality and Naming
Synonym:
Lithology and Thickness
Continental sands with fluvial & distributary channels, mash & swamps in an essential upper delta plain environment.
[Figure: Stratigraphic data sheet (west and east halves combined) of the Niger Delta.]
Lithology Pattern:
Sandstone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Imo shale Fm (conformable)
Upper contact
This is the top group. (Because this is one of the transgressive depositions in Niger delta basin.)
Regional extent
Niger Delta
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Ypresian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0
Beginning date (Ma):
56.00
Ending stage:
Holocene
Fraction up in the ending stage:
1
Ending date (Ma):
0.00
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
Rebecca Bobick (and Wen Du), modified from Reijers, T.J.A., "stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Niger Delta", Geologos, 2011, 17(3): 133-162