Bir M'Cherga Fm
Period:
Jurassic, Cretaceous
Age Interval:
Province:
Northern Africa: Tunisia
Type Locality and Naming
Synonym:
Lithology and Thickness
Fossiliferous marl and clay with intercalations of micritic limestone and sandstone.
Lithology Pattern:
Shallow-marine marl
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Limestone (un-named) (conformable)
Upper contact
Fahdene Fm (conformable)
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Tithonian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.6
Beginning date (Ma):
145.56
Ending stage:
Albian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0
Ending date (Ma):
113.20
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
Rebecca Bobick (and Wen Du), modified from Fig. 3, Fetheddine Melki, Taher Zouaghi, Mohamed Ben Chelbi, Mourad Bédir and Fouad Zargouni (2012). Role of the NE-SW Hercynian Master Fault Systems and Associated Lineaments on the Structuring and Evolution of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic Basins of the Alpine Margin, Northern Tunisia, Tectonics - Recent Advances, Prof. Evgenii Sharkov (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-0675-3, InTech, DOI: 10.5772/50145. Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/books/tectonics-recent-advances/role-of-the-ne-sw-hercynian-master-fault-systems-and-associated-lineaments-on-the-structuring-and-ev