Bingqiu Fm
Period:
Jurassic
Age Interval:
Late Jurassic, (TJ88)
Province:
Anhui
Type Locality and Naming
Type section at Bingqiu in Xiuning County, Anhui Province. Named by No.2 Anhui Regional Geological Survey Team, 1971, Explanatory Text for 1∶200 000 Scale Geological Map: Qimen, Tunxi Sheet
Synonym:
Lithology and Thickness
Fresh red, dark red conglomerate with interbeds of sandstone and claystone
Lithology Pattern:
Aus conglomerate
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Schematic "red Chinese Lexicon" strat column indicates the next older regional unit is the Hongqin Fm of middle Jurassic.
Upper contact
Schematic "red Chinese Lexicon" strat column indicates the next younger regional unit is the Zhuangwu Fm.
Regional extent
The Xiuning Basin is a small intermountain basin during the Mesozoic.
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Schematic strat column in previous "red Chinese Lexicon" implied that the Bingqiu Fm was Kimmeridgian.
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Kimmeridgian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.0
Beginning date (Ma):
154.78
Ending stage:
Kimmeridgian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.5
Ending date (Ma):
152.01
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
Information from Geological Formation Names of China (1866-2000), Springer