Medjzir Yemen Basin General Lithology Fm
Period:
Cretaceous
Age Interval:
Province:
Afar-Yemen Region
Type Locality and Naming
Column: Yemen Basin General Lithology
Lithology and Thickness
Medj-Zir Fm:
LITHOLOGY = The Medj-Zir Formation includes shallow marine sandstone with agglutinated marine foraminifera of Paleocene age
CALIBRATION = 30% up in the Upper Cretaceous.
REFERENCE = Bosworth, W., "The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Basins", Journal of African Earth Sciences 43 (2005) 334-378
LITHOLOGY = The Medj-Zir Formation includes shallow marine sandstone with agglutinated marine foraminifera of Paleocene age
CALIBRATION = 30% up in the Upper Cretaceous.
REFERENCE = Bosworth, W., "The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Basins", Journal of African Earth Sciences 43 (2005) 334-378
Lithology Pattern:
Sandstone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Upper contact
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Turonian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.83
Beginning date (Ma):
90.16
Ending stage:
Priabonian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.71
Ending date (Ma):
35.01
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
long: 48 lat: 14
Compiler: