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Songmaoshan Formation

Songmaoshan Fm


Period: 
Ordovician

Age Interval: 
Late Ordovician, (6)


Province: 
Heilongjiang

Type Locality and Naming

Type section at Songmaoshan in Xinglonggou Area, Huma County, Heilongjiang Province. Named by Xie Guisheng, 1983, Explanatory Text for 1∶200 000 Scale Geological Map: Xinglonggou Sheet, Humazhen She.

Synonym:


Lithology and Thickness

Rhythmic beds composed of sandstone, metamorphic sandstone and slate


Lithology Pattern: 
Clayey sandstone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Regionally, the next older unit is the Nanyanghe Fm

Upper contact

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils


Age 


Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Katian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.7

    Beginning date (Ma): 
447.47

    Ending stage: 
Rhuddanian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.0

    Ending date (Ma):  
443.07

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Extracted from Geological Formation Names of China (1866-2000); Springer Publ.