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Tchengue Gabon Offshore East Formation
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Tchengue Gabon Offshore East Fm base reconstruction

Tchengue Gabon Offshore East Fm


Period: 
Neogene

Age Interval: 

Province: 
Gabon General lithology

Type Locality and Naming

Column: Gabon Offshore East

Lithology and Thickness

Tchengue Fm:
CALIBRATION = 10% up in the Holocene-Pliocene.
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: 
Sandstone

Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Upper contact

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils


Age 


Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Zanclean

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.31

    Beginning date (Ma): 
4.80

    Ending stage: 
Gelasian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.23

    Ending date (Ma):  
2.40

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  

Additional Information

long: 8 lat: -1.5

Compiler: