Pasi Gr
Type Locality and Naming
The type section is located around Kapalanggou in the upper Yarkant River, Xinjiang. It was named by H.A. Velanyevsky [sp.?] in 1946 (original data unavailable).
Lithology and Thickness
Limestone. Dominated by light-gray dolomitic limestone, gray-red thick-bedded massive limestone, gray-black chert limestone, yellow-gray brecciated limestone, gray organic limestone, and gray and purple shales, locally intercalated with thin-bedded intermediate-basic volcanic rock. Thickness over 777 m.
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Unknown: the bottom is unexposed
Upper contact
Conformable contact with the overlying Qiatier Gr
Regional extent
Distributed east of the Yarkant River in the Karakorum Mts., in a NW-trending band.
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Fossils
Brachiopods Gigantoproductus sp., Antiquatonia sp. and Cyrtospirifer sp.; Corals Lithostrotion sp. and Caninia sp.
Age
Depositional setting
It is interpreted as a neritic facies of carbonates intercalated with clastics.
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