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Haojiagou Formation

Haojiagou Fm


Period: 
Triassic

Age Interval: 
Middle-late Late Triassic, (TJ2, TJ3, TJ4)


Province: 
Xinjiang

Type Locality and Naming

The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Regional Stratigraphic Sheet Preparation Group was named in 1981. The named section is located in Haojiagou, Urumqi, Xinjiang. Upper formation in the Xiaoquangou Gr.


Lithology and Thickness

It is yellow-green and gray-green sandstone, conglomerate and mudstone with unequal thickness, interbedded with carbonaceous mudstone, coal line, rhodochrosite nodules and thin layers of stacked cone tuff. It is 217 m thick.


Lithology Pattern: 
Coarse-grained sandstone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

The bottom part is in integrated contact with the underlying Huangshanjie Fm

Upper contact

The top part is in pseudo-integrated contact with the Lower Jurassic Badaowan Fm

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils

Plants: Bernouillia zeilleri, Danaeopsis fecunda, Podozamites sp., Cladophlebis cf. kaoiana; small spores produced in the area of Jimusaer and Fukang: Dictyophyllidites-Apiculatisporites-Nonstriate bisaccaae assemblage; macrospores: Calamospora rhaeticus-Trileites vulgaris-Hughesisporites gibbosus assemblage; bivalves are also produced in Qitai County.


Age 


Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Norian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.5

    Beginning date (Ma): 
216.52

    Ending stage: 
Rhaetian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
1.0

    Ending date (Ma):  
201.36

Depositional setting

The group are fluvial and lacustrine facies.


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Yang Jiduan, Jian Yuanping and Tong Jinnan.