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Ta'ergang Formation

Ta'ergang Fm


Period: 
Mesoproterozoic

Age Interval: 
Yuxian (Stenian), Yx (29)


Province: 
Hubei

Type Locality and Naming

Northeast Hubei border to Henan. The Ta'ergang Fm was named by the Party of Regional Geological Survey, Hubei Bureau of Geology in 197. The type section is in Guojiasi, Huanpi County, Hubei Province. It is upper formation (4/4) within the Hong'an Gr.

Synonym:


Lithology and Thickness

Lower part of the formation is dominated by grey, silver-grey or grey-yellow, yellow green sericite quartz schist, muscovite (sericite) albite quartz schist, and dark-green actinolite quartz schist intercalated with sericite schist. Middle part is microcline-albite leuco-leptite (obscure term for fine-grained feldspar-quartz gneiss, usually interpreted as metavolcanics). Upper part is light flesh-red thin-platy leuco-leptite, sericite (muscovite) quartz schist, albite-epidote actinolite schist, sericite quartz schist and phyllite; with a top of phyllite and chert. The thickness varies from 1175 m to over 1600 m.


Lithology Pattern: 
Metavolcanics


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

It is in conformable contact with the underlying Qijiaoshan Fm.

Upper contact

It has an unconformable contact with Yaolinghe Gr. (Neoproterozoic)

Regional extent

Northeast Hubei border to Henan. It is distributed in Huangpi and Guangji counties, Hubei Province. Around Guangji, the glaucophane schist with some high-pressure metamorphic minerals, such as phengite and stilpnomelane occur in muscovite albite quartz schist.


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Age 

Schematic stratigraphic section shows spanning Yuxian (Stenian).

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Stenian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
1,200.00

    Ending stage: 
Stenian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
1.0

    Ending date (Ma):  
1,000.00

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Extracts from The Mesoproterozoic Erathem (chapter in Stratigraphic Lexicon of China, draft of 2022) by Gao Linzhi, Ding Xiaozhong, Zhang Chuanheng, Zhang Heng.