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Maziping Formation
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Maziping Fm base reconstruction

Maziping Fm

Period: 
Cretaceous

Age Interval: 
Early Cretaceous, K1mz, (42c)


Province: 
Guangdong

Type Locality and Naming

The No 761 Geological Team of Guangdong named the Maziping Group in Qujiang. Zhang Xianqiou (1988) renamed it as the Maziping Formation. The type locality is at the Maziping section (113º31', 25º07') in the Qujiang County, Guangdong.


Lithology and Thickness

The Maziping Formation is a group of multiple clastic rocks, consisting of brownish red sandstone, and light yellow, yellowish green, grayish green dark grey mudstone. It is 763~988 m in thickness.


Lithology Pattern: 
Clayey sandstone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

The formation conformably contacts with the underlying Sandong Fm.

Upper contact

Regional extent

It occurs mostly in the Shaoguan area, Guangdong.


GeoJSON

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Fossils

The formation contains ostracod Darwinula contracta; conchostracan Orthestheria wangzhuangensis, Halysestheria guangtongensis; and charophyte Maedlerisphaera sp.


Age 

Not given; for graphic purposes put as late-Early Cret.

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Aptian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
121.40

    Ending stage: 
Albian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
1.0

    Ending date (Ma):  
100.50

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Wan Xiaoqiao