Shangkuli Fm
Period:
Jurassic, Cretaceous
Age Interval:
Upper Jurassic-Early Cretaceous?, (TJ8).
Province:
Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang
Type Locality and Naming
Type section at Shangkuli village in Ergum You Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Named by No.2 Heilongjiang Regional Geological Survey Team, 1981, Explanatory Text for 1∶200 000 Scale Geological Map: Genhe Sheet, Sanhezhen Sheet. An upper formation in this regional version of the Xinganling Gr.
Lithology and Thickness
Rhyolitic-andesitic volcanic lava and volcanic sediments
Lithology Pattern:
Volcanics
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Conformable onto the Murui Fm of siltstone
Upper contact
Jurassic strat column in older Chinese-language lexicon indicates overlain by the Ganhe Fm volcanics (which is implied in its Cretaceous Lexicon entry to be late Barremian in age)
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Implied by overlying/underlying formations to be early Cretaceous
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Berriasian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.0
Beginning date (Ma):
143.10
Ending stage:
Barremian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.5
Ending date (Ma):
123.95
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
Jingeng Sha (coordinator)
Excerpts from Geological Formation Names of China (1866-2000), Springer.