Liuhuangshan Gr
Period:
Ordovician
Age Interval:
Late Ordovician, (11)
Province:
Xinjiang
Type Locality and Naming
The type section is at Liuhuangshan in Tukexun County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It was named by the Xinjiang Regional Geological Survey Team, 1965, Explanatory Text for 1∶200 000 Scale Geological Map: Xinge’er Sheet. First appeared in a 1958 manuscript by Chen Songguang.
Synonym:
Lithology and Thickness
a series of grayish green, yellowish brown phyllite with interbeds of a few sandstones, siltstones, conglomerates and limestone lenticles.
Lithology Pattern:
Sandy claystone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Not yet given
Upper contact
Not yet given
Regional extent
Not yet given
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Not yet given
Age
Late Ordovician.
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Sandbian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.0
Beginning date (Ma):
458.18
Ending stage:
Katian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
1.0
Ending date (Ma):
445.21
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
Extracted from Geological Formation Names of China (1866-2000); Springer Publ.