Salantah Cyrenaica Basin Fm
Period:
Paleogene
Age Interval:
Province:
Libya
Type Locality and Naming
Column: Cyrenaica Basin
Lithology and Thickness
Salantah Fm LITHOLOGY= Salantah (Slonta) Fm - Hard to differentiate from the underlying Darnah Fm, therefore it is sometimes considered to be part of the Darnah Fm. CALIBRATION = Base of Priabonian. 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:
Chalk
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Upper contact
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Priabonian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0
Beginning date (Ma):
37.71
Ending stage:
Rupelian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0
Ending date (Ma):
33.90
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
long: 24 lat: 27
Compiler: