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Tugulu Gr

Tugulu Gr


Period: 
Cretaceous

Age Interval: 
Cretaceous, KtG, (1, 2)


Province: 
Xinjiang

Type Locality and Naming

Junggar Basin. M. H. Saidov erected the Tugulu series in 1935. The type locality for the designation is on the southern edge of the Junggar basin of Xinjiang and at the northern foot of the east Tianshan Mountain. The reference section is at Ziniquanzi of the Shawan County of Xinjiang.

Upward succession of Qingshuihe Fm, Hutubihe Fm, Shenjinkou Fm, Lianmuqin Fm in Junggar Basin; or of Sanshilidadun Fm, Shenjinkou Fm, Lianmuqin Fm in Turpan Basin.


Lithology and Thickness

The Tugulu Group is represented by brown red, gray green and yellow green variegated interbedded mudstone, sandy mudstone, siltstone and sandstone, with the base being made up of conglomerate.


Lithology Pattern: 
Sandy claystone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

The base marked by gray conglomerate lies disconformably on the Upper Jurassic Karaza Fm.

Upper contact

Its top marked by brown red sandy mudstone and clayey siltstone and sandstone is distinguished from the overlying Donggou Fm and shows a disconformable contact with the latter.

Regional extent

It is distributed in the Junggar basin and the Turpan-Hami basins.


GeoJSON

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Fossils

See component formations


Age 

Shown as mid-Berriasian through mid-Albian by Dangpeng Xi, Xiaoqiao Wan, et al. (2019; Integrated Stratigraphy and TimeScale of China)

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Berriasian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.5

    Beginning date (Ma): 
140.40

    Ending stage: 
Albian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.75

    Ending date (Ma):  
103.68

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Wan Xiaoqiao