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Shujiaba Gr

Shujiaba Gr


Period: 
Devonian

Age Interval: 
D2-3 (36), Middle to Upper Devonian


Province: 
Gansu

Type Locality and Naming

The type section is located at the place from Shuijiaba of Tianshui County to north Mayanhe River of Hui County, Gansu Province. It was named by Shaanxi Geological Survey in 1968 and was published by Zou Guocao in 1983.


Lithology and Thickness

Flysch. The group is mainly characterized by a series of flysch deposits of alternating grayish-green silty slate and thin- to medium-bedded fine-grained sandstone and siltstone. In the type area, the Shujiaba Group has an incomplete thickness of 4618 m.


Lithology Pattern: 
Sandy claystone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

The Shujiaba Group has an incomplete thickness of 4618 m, and has a fault contact to the Carboniferous Danfeng Group on both its north and south sides.

Upper contact

Faulted.

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils

In the Dahezhuang and Suojiaping, it contains spores Gradispora comuta, Tumulispora rarituberculata, Kraeuselisporites mitratus, and plant Cyclostigma kiltorkense.


Age 

Middle to Upper Devonian

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Givetian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
385.30

    Ending stage: 
Famennian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.2

    Ending date (Ma):  
368.74

Depositional setting

Flysch


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

(Cao Xuanduo)