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Gongyenong Formation

Gongyenong Fm


Period: 
Triassic

Age Interval: 
Early Late Triassic, (TJ34)


Province: 
Xizang (Tibet)

Type Locality and Naming

Named by Bingwei Chen and Changxing Ai in 1983. The named section is located in the north of Walla Monastery, Jiangda County, Tibet.

Synonym: Gongye Nong Fm. Sichuan Geological and Mining Bureau and Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1982) have referred to a set of lower red layer, middle tuff layer and upper volcanic layer in the area of Jiangda Wash, Tibet, which represent the Late Triassic Carnian period deposition, as the Kappira Fm, and the named Gong Yelong Fm is stratigraphically equivalent to the middle tuff layer of the original Kappira Fm.


Lithology and Thickness

It is gray marl tuff, siliceous tuff, massive limestone with flint bands and nodules. The thickness is 420 m.


Lithology Pattern: 
Volcanic ash


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

The top is in integrated contact with the underlying Upper Triassic Dongduo Fm

Upper contact

The bottom is in integrated contact with the overlying Upper Triassic Dongka Fm

Regional extent

Distributed in Jiangda County, Gongjue County and the area of Leiwuqi County in Tibet


GeoJSON

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Fossils

It contains Ammonoids Protrachyceras sp., Trachyceras sp. and Paratrachyceras sp., and also bivalves.


Age 

The time period is the Late Triassic Carnian period. Tong et al. (2019, Triassic integrated stratigraphy and timescale in China, Science China: Earth Sciences, v. 62, no. 1) assign it as spanning lower Carnian.

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Carnian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
237.00

    Ending stage: 
Carnian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.5

    Ending date (Ma):  
232.15

Depositional setting

This group is a deeper seawater sediment.


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Zhang Shunxin, Jian Yuanping and Tong Jinnan.