Shuinichang Fm
Period:
Ordovician
Age Interval:
Late Ordovician, (25)
Province:
Qinghai
Type Locality and Naming
The type section is at Shuinichang close to Golmud City, Qinghai Province. It was named by Li Guangcen, Lin Baoyu, 1982, Probe into Several Geologic Problems on Eastern Kunlun Mountain, in Contribution to the Geology of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, (1), Beijing: Geological Publishing House.
Synonym:
Lithology and Thickness
Dark gray limestone
Lithology Pattern:
Limestone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Upper contact
Underlies the Shihuichang Fm
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Katian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.4
Beginning date (Ma):
449.73
Ending stage:
Katian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.7
Ending date (Ma):
447.47
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
Extracted from Geological Formation Names of China (1866-2000); Springer Publ.