Talipo Fm
Type Locality and Naming
The type section is located at the Cow Farm of Zhongzan to Talipo of Batang County, westernmost Sichuan Province near border with Tibet. It was named by Sichuan No 3 Team of Regional Geological Survey in 1977 and was published by Sichuan Compiling Group for Regional Stratigraphical Scale in 1978.
Lithology and Thickness
Dolomitic limestone. The formation is dominated in lower and middle parts by gray to light-gray thick-bedded to massive dolomitic algal limestone, of which dolomite is distributed as snowflake and fog-like patches; and the upper part of formation is characterized by gray to light-gray massive crystalline limestone intercalated with grayish-yellow and purplish-red marly algal limestone. To the east of Cangna, the facies changes to sandy slate.
It is 188 m in thickness.
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
The formation has a conformable lower contact onto the grayish-white massive crystalline limestone intercalated with stromatopora limestone of the Cangna Fm.
Upper contact
The formation is overlain by brick-red bioclastic limestone of the Baxiangling Fm limestone of Lower Carboniferous.
Regional extent
It is distributed in Dangjizhenna, Zhongzan of Batang County, and to the south it can extend to Zhongdian (now called Shangri-La) County of Yunnan.
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Fossils
It has no mega fossils.
Age
Depositional setting
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