Sabkah Salt Cyrenaica Basin Flats
Period:
Quaternary
Age Interval:
Province:
Libya
Type Locality and Naming
Column: Cyrenaica Basin
Lithology and Thickness
Sabkah Salt Flats LITHOLOGY= Sabkah (Sebcha) Salt Flats - USGS chart places these salt flats at the base of the Flandrian stage, at the base of the Holocene. Evaporitic salt flats on top of sandstone. CALIBRATION = Base of the Holocene. REFERENCE = Chart derived from: USGS Correlation Chart and Columnar Section for Rocks in Libya, 1963. Descriptions from: Hallet, Don: Petroleum Geology of Libya, 2002.
Lithology Pattern:
Evaporite
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Upper contact
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Holocene
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.15
Beginning date (Ma):
0.01
Ending stage:
Fortunian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0
Ending date (Ma):
538.80
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
long: 24 lat: 27
Compiler: