Panafrican Afar Basin General Lithology Terranes
Period:
Cambrian
Age Interval:
Province:
Afar-Yemen Region
Type Locality and Naming
Column: Afar Basin General Lithology
Lithology and Thickness
Pan-African terranes:
CALIBRATION = Placed in the base of the Cambrianfor display purposes.
REFERENCE = Bosworth, W., "The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Basins", Journal of African Earth Sciences 43 (2005) 334-378
CALIBRATION = Placed in the base of the Cambrianfor display purposes.
REFERENCE = Bosworth, W., "The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Basins", Journal of African Earth Sciences 43 (2005) 334-378
Lithology Pattern:
Basement
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Upper contact
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Fortunian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0
Beginning date (Ma):
538.80
Ending stage:
Asselian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0
Ending date (Ma):
298.89
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
long: 42 lat: 13
Compiler: