Baluti Fm
Period:
Triassic
Age Interval:
Norian – Rhaetian, Iq (2,4)
Province:
Iraq
Type Locality and Naming
Column: Central Iraq, Column: N Iraq
Synonym:
Lithology and Thickness
Poorly defined stratigraphic unit. Comprises grey green and grey shales with decimeter beds of thin bedded dolomitic silicified, and oolitic limestones, and recrystallization breccias. 60m thick at type section.
Lithology Pattern:
Shallow-marine marl
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates the next older unit as Kurra Chine Fm
Upper contact
Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates the next younger unit as Mileh Tharthar Clastics Fm
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Norian – Rhaetian
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Norian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.95
Beginning date (Ma):
206.82
Ending stage:
Rhaetian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.6
Ending date (Ma):
203.11
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
From S. Z. Jassim and J. C. Goff, Geology of Iraq, 2006. pg 105, Fig. 9-1: "Stratigraphic correlation of the Late Permian-Liassic Megasequence (AP6)."