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Baihuating Formation

Baihuating Fm

Period: 
Cretaceous

Age Interval: 
Late Cretaceous, K2b


Province: 
Hunan

Type Locality and Naming

The name of Baihuating Formation was given by Zhaobiequan (1994). The Type Locality is in Baihuating of Yueyang City, Hunan. The key section is the Baihuating section in the Zhongcun Village of Yueyang (113º15', 28º05'). The Geological Survey Team used to call it as the Luojiu Formation and referred it to the Upper Cretaceous to Paleocene.


Lithology and Thickness

The formation consists of a group of reddish brown thick-bedded conglomerate, sandy conglomerate, and calcareous siltstone. Its thickness are various from 500 m to 5000 m in different sedimentary basins.


Lithology Pattern: 
Conglomerate


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

It unconformably contacts with the underlying pre-Cretaceous strata.

Upper contact

Its top is covered by the Paleocene beds.

Regional extent

The formation is distributed in the Xiangtan, Changing, Yueyang and Yuanma basins.


GeoJSON

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Fossils

None listed


Age 

Only "Late Cret" is indicated. For graphic purposes, put here as Turonian-Campanian

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Turonian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
93.90

    Ending stage: 
Campanian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
1.0

    Ending date (Ma):  
72.17

Depositional setting

The formation is fluvial fan deposits.


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Wan Xiaoqiao