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Hebukehe Formation

Hebukehe Fm


Period: 
Carboniferous

Age Interval: 
C11 (),early Early Carboniferous


Province: 
Xinjiang

Type Locality and Naming

The type section is lies at the east bank of the middle Hebuke River, Hoboksar County, Xinjiang. It was named by the No. 2 Team of Xinjiang Party of Regional Geological Survey in 1979.


Lithology and Thickness

Sandy Limestone and Volcanics. A suite of clastic rock formation, consisting mainly of dark-gray, yellow-green and gray-green sandy limestone, calcareous siltstone, siltstone, fine-grained sandstone and grit stone, intercalated with minor purple-gray bioclastic tuffaceous sandstone, siltstone, calcareous marl and siliceous limestone. In the middle and lower parts there are andesitic basalt porphyrite, andesitic porphyrite and intermediate-acid tuff. Thickness 255−1744 m.


Lithology Pattern: 
Volcanics


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Conformable contact (mostly) with the underlying strata

Upper contact

Conformable contact (mostly) with the overlying strata

Regional extent

Distributed in the eastern part of Semishitai Mt. south of the Hoboksar depression in western Junggar, Shaerbuerti Mt., and the Greater and Lesser Hafutike Mts and Santanghu in eastern Junggar.


GeoJSON

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Fossils

Brachiopods Plicatifera sp., Rucauris sp., Leptagonia sp., Cyrtospirifer sp., Mucrospirifer sp. and Dielasma sp.; Corals Nicholsoniella sp., Syringaxon? sp., Nalivkinella sp. and Aulopora sp.; Trilobite Phacops sp.; Clymenias Cymaclymenia cf. striata, Imitocera sp., etc. Zhao Zhixin has collected Conodonts Apatognathus sp., Gnathodus sp., Polygnathus sp., Pseudopolygnathus sp., etc. from the upper member of the Aerjiatishan Fm.


Age 

early Early Carboniferous

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Tournaisian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
359.30

    Ending stage: 
Tournaisian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
1.0

    Ending date (Ma):  
346.73

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Zhang Zixin