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Linjiang Formation

Linjiang Fm

Period: 
Mesoproterozoic

Age Interval: 
Jixianian (Calymmian) Jx (18)


Province: 
Jilin, Liaoning, North Korea

Type Locality and Naming

Southernmost Jilin. The Linjiang Fm was named by the Southern Jilin Party of Regional Geological Survey, Changchun College of Geological Exploration in 1960. The type section is at Laosandui-Huashan-Linjiang, Hunjiang City, Jilin Province. Upper-middle (4 of 5) formation in Laoling Gr.

Synonym: （临江组）


Lithology and Thickness

The Linjiang Fm is subdivided into three parts. Lower part is composed of thick-bedded quartzite sandwiched with carbonaceous slate, fine-grained sandstone and thin-bedded two-mica schist. Middle part consists of staurolite-two-mica schist, sericite quartz schist with quartzite. Upper part is medium-thick-bedded quartzite with sericite quartz schist. The thickness is recorded to 1528 m.


Lithology Pattern: 
Clayey sandstone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

It conformably rests on the underlying Huashan Fm.

Upper contact

It conformably overlies on the Dalizi Fm.

Regional extent

Southernmost Jilin. The Linjiang Fm is distributed in a belt shape of NEE direction on east and west sides of Linjiang Town. It is also sporadically exposed in Heping Village, Tonghua County and Mayihe Township, Changbai County.


GeoJSON

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Fossils

The microplants in carbonaceous slate are: Margominuscula antiqua, Leiominuscula aff. minuta.


Age 

Schematic stratigraphic section places as early Jixianian (early Calymmian).

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Calymmian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
1,600.00

    Ending stage: 
Calymmian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.25

    Ending date (Ma):  
1,550.00

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Extracts from The Mesoproterozoic Erathem (chapter in Stratigraphic Lexicon of China, draft of 2022) by Gao Linzhi, Ding Xiaozhong, Zhang Chuanheng, Zhang Heng.