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Lamaya Formation

Lamaya Fm


Period: 
Triassic

Age Interval: 
Middle Late Triassic, (TJ72, TJ73a, TJ73b, TJ75a, TJ75b)


Province: 
Sichuan

Type Locality and Naming

The first area survey team of Sichuan Geological Bureau named the formation in 1961, and the third area survey team was publicly quoted for the first time in 1974. The named section is located in Lamaya, Reke District, Litang County, Sichuan Province. The reference section is located in EduoZhuoxi, XiongLong Township, Hexi District, Xinlong County, Sichuan Province.

Synonym:


Lithology and Thickness

It is composed of a set of dark gray hard quartz sandstone, feldspar quartz sandstone, interbedded with black carbonaceous slate and silty slate, and local coal interbedded line or coal seam. The thickness is between 2000 and 5000 m. The thickest area is up to 7000 m. In the south and east, the thickness is large, and in the west and north, the thickness becomes thin until the tip goes out.


Lithology Pattern: 
Clayey sandstone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

The light gray thick feldspar quartz sandstone at the bottom is conformable contact with the top shale of the underlying Lanashan Fm

Upper contact

The top is unconformable contact with the bottom conglomerate of the overlying Yingzhunnianga Fm

Regional extent

It is only exposed in the north of Zhongdian area and is characterized by the occurrence of thick sandstone.


GeoJSON

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Fossils

There are plant fossils in the upper part, including Neocalamites carrerei, Cladophlebis raciborskii, Clathropteris meniscioides, Pterophyllum ptilum, Anomozamites loczyi, Nilssoni opteris jourdyi; There are bivalve fossils in the lower part, such as Yunnanophorus boulei, Palaeoneilo peelii.


Age 

Schematic stratigraphic column implies mid-Norian through Rhaetian.

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Norian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.5

    Beginning date (Ma): 
216.52

    Ending stage: 
Norian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
1.0

    Ending date (Ma):  
205.74

Depositional setting

This group belongs to the clastic rock deposits of inland basin facies.


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Zhou Huiqin, Miao Xue and Tong Jinnan.