Home Multi-Country Search About Admin Login
Cenozoic
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic
Permian
Carboniferous
Devonian
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrian
Neoproterozoic
Mesoproterozoic

Search by
Select Region(s) to search
Hold Ctrl (Windows/Linux) or Command (Mac) to select multiple
Yejiatang Formation

Yejiatang Fm


Period: 
Carboniferous

Age Interval: 
C21−C12 (52), late-Early to early-Late Carboniferous


Province: 
Zhejiang

Type Locality and Naming

The type section is located at Yejiatang Village, Kaihua County, Zhejiang. It was named by Jiang Shengzhi et al. in 1959.


Lithology and Thickness

Sandstone and Coal. Composed of sandstone-conglomerate, pebbly sandstone, fine-grained sandstone, siltstone and high-carbonaceous mudstone, intercalated with coal seams or streaks, forming 4−5 cycles of normal grading. The mineable coal seams are in the Lower part, and generally no mineable coal seams in the Upper part. Thickness varies from to 20 to 78 m.


Lithology Pattern: 
Coarse-grained sandstone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Disconformable contact with the underlying Zhucangwu Fm in the areas from west of the Jiandeshi Dock to Kaihua, Changshan and Hengjia of Yushan County, Jiangxi; but in unconformable contact with the underlying Ordovician Dewu Fm along Dongjing to Jiangshan of Jinhua and to Sandu and Liuzhai of Yushan County, Jiangxi

Upper contact

Disconformable contact with the overlying Outangdi Fm along Dongjing to Jiangshan of Jinhua and to Sandu and Liuzhai of Yushan County, Jiangxi

Regional extent


GeoJSON

null

Fossils

Lower part contains the Plant Anisopteris cf. transitionis-Archaeocalamites scrobiculatus assemblage, while the Upper Part contains the Neuropteris schlehani cf. rectinervis-Mariopteris acuta cf. obtusa assemblage.


Age 

late Early Carboniferous−early Late Carboniferous

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Visean

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
346.73

    Ending stage: 
Serpukhovian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.55

    Ending date (Ma):  
326.52

Depositional setting

It is interpreted as limnetic deposits


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Fang Bingxing