Loeme Salt Fm
Period:
Cretaceous
Age Interval:
Province:
Central Africa: Congo basin General
Type Locality and Naming
Synonym:
Lithology and Thickness
Lithology Pattern:
Halite
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Upper contact
Regional extent
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Fossils
Age
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Aptian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.3
Beginning date (Ma):
118.94
Ending stage:
Aptian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
1
Ending date (Ma):
113.20
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:  
Additional Information
Compiler:
Rebecca Bobick (and Wen Du), modified from Figure 13, Brownfield, M.E. and Charpentier, R.R., "Geology and Total Petroleum Systems of the West-Central Coastal Province (7203), West Africa", US Geological Survey Bulletin 2207-B