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Bailishan Formation

Bailishan Fm


Period: 
Triassic

Age Interval: 
Late Triassic, (TJ1)


Province: 
Xinjiang

Type Locality and Naming

This Formation was named by Dong Hegao in 1978 and was first publicly cited in 1996 by the Rock Stratigraphy Compilation Group of the Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Type locality is located near the Baili Mountain in Hebuksail Mongolian Autonomous County, Xinjiang (center-northernmost Tacheng Prefecture; ca. 46.8° N, 85.7° E)

Synonym:


Lithology and Thickness

Grayish green, yellow, grayish white, dark gray, white sandstone, mudstone, conglomerate unequal thickness interbedded, interbedded carbonaceous mudstone and inferior coal, 46.5 m thick.


Lithology Pattern: 
Clayey sandstone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

The bottom, gray-white quartz conglomerate. Next older regional unit is the Baikouquan Fm conglomerates.

Upper contact

The top boundary is in pseudo-conformity contact with the Lower Jurassic Badaowan Formation.

Regional extent

In Hebuksail County, the thickness is 46.5-69 m; to the southwest to the Tuoli area, it is 101 m thick.


GeoJSON

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Fossils

Plant fossils: Neoannularia shanxiensis, Sphenopteris sp., Clathropteris sp.


Age 


Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Carnian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
237.00

    Ending stage: 
Rhaetian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
1.0

    Ending date (Ma):  
201.36

Depositional setting

It is interpreted as lacustrine facies, fluvial and lacustrine facies deposits.


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Yang Jiduan, Du Yong and Tong Jinnan.