Hongta Fm
Period:
Neogene
Age Interval:
late Miocene - Pliocene (22)
Province:
Hubei
Type Locality and Naming
Hubei - NW. Hongta, south of Fangxian County, Hubei Province. Named by Lei Yizhen, Guan Shaozeng, Zhang Qingru, Sun Quanying, 1987, Biostratigraphy of the Yangtze Gorges Area.
Lithology and Thickness
Brownish red huge conglomerate, breccia, with interbeds of sandstone, muddy sandstone and sandy mudstone
Lithology Pattern:
Conglomerate
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Conformably overlying the Shaping Fm
Upper contact
Quaternary
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Tortonian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.0
Beginning date (Ma):
11.63
Ending stage:
Gelasian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
1.0
Ending date (Ma):
1.80
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
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