Jiupanying Fm
Period:
Mesoproterozoic
Age Interval:
Yuxian (Stenian) Yx (34)
Province:
Sichuan
Type Locality and Naming
Mid-South Sichuan. [THIS IS A PLACE HOLDER – Lexicon currently omitted details.] The type section is probably in Dengxiangying, Xide County, Sichuan Province. Uppermost within the Dengxiangying Gr.
Synonym:
Lithology and Thickness
An article (in Japanese) dated its dacite, so includes volcanics. [THIS IS A PLACE HOLDER – Lexicon currently omitted details.]
Lithology Pattern:
Volcanics
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Overlies the Darezha Fm.
Upper contact
Not given. Regionally (southernmost Sichuan), the next younger unit is the Yanbian Gr (Huangtian Fm)
Regional extent
Mid-South Sichuan. The hosting group is widespread in the juncture zone between Xide and Mianning counties, Sichuan Province.
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
The schematic stratigraphic column implies an earliest Tonian age? But placed here as uppermost Stenian until details are given.
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Stenian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.8
Beginning date (Ma):
1,040.00
Ending stage:
Stenian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
1.0
Ending date (Ma):
1,000.00
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
Derived from The Mesoproterozoic Erathem (chapter in Stratigraphic Lexicon of China, draft of 2022) by Gao Linzhi, Ding Xiaozhong, Zhang Chuanheng, Zhang Heng.