Amud Fm
Period:
Cambrian, Ordovician
Age Interval:
Cambrian Stage 10 – Tremadocian, Iq3, J1, T1
Province:
Iraq, Jordan, Turkey
Type Locality and Naming
Column: Rutba Uplift (W Iraq), Column: NE Jordan, Column: SE Turkey
Synonym:
Lithology and Thickness
Coarse-grained sandstone with occasional shale beds
Lithology Pattern:
Sandy_claystone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Upper contact
Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates the next younger unit as Khabour Fm in Rutba Uplift (W Iraq). Sahl As Suwwan in NE Jordan. Seydisehir Fm in SE Turkey.
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Cambrian Stage 10 – Tremadocian
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Cambrian Stage 10
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.9
Beginning date (Ma):
487.27
Ending stage:
Tremadocian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
1.0
Ending date (Ma):
477.08
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
From S. Z. Jassim and J. C. Goff, Geology of Iraq, 2006. pg 92, Fig. 8-1: "Stratigraphic correlation of megasequences AP1 to AP5 for Iraq and surrounding countries."