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Rio Dande Kwanza Basin Onshore Formation
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Rio Dande Kwanza Basin Onshore Fm base reconstruction

Rio Dande Kwanza Basin Onshore Fm


Period: 
Cretaceous

Age Interval: 

Province: 
Kwanza Basin, Angola

Type Locality and Naming

Column: Kwanza Basin Onshore

Lithology and Thickness

Rio Dande Fm:
LITHOLOGY = Shale with interbeds of calcite-cemented sandstone and siltstone
CALIBRATION = 75% up in the Paleocene.
REFERENCE = Brownfield, M.E. and Charpentier, R.R., "Geology and Total Petroleum Systems of the West-Central Coastal Province (7203), West Africa", US Geological Survery Bulletin 2207-B

Lithology Pattern: 
Sandy limestone

Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Upper contact

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils


Age 


Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Maastrichtian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.54

    Beginning date (Ma): 
68.84

    Ending stage: 
Ypresian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0

    Ending date (Ma):  
56.00

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  

Additional Information

long: 14.6 lat: -8.3

Compiler: