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Basarin Formation
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Basarin Fm base reconstruction

Basarin Fm


Period: 
Jurassic

Age Interval: 
Kimmeridgian – Tithonian, Iq4


Province: 
Iraq

Type Locality and Naming

Column: N Iraq

Synonym:


Lithology and Thickness

Limestone


Lithology Pattern: 
Limestone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates the next older unit as Naokelekan Fm

Upper contact

Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates the next younger unit as Chia Gara Fm

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils


Age 

Kimmeridgian - Tithonian

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Kimmeridgian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.5

    Beginning date (Ma): 
152.01

    Ending stage: 
Tithonian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.3

    Ending date (Ma):  
147.40

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

From S. Z. Jassim and J. C. Goff, Geology of Iraq, 2006. pg 117, Fig. 10-1: "Stratigraphic correlation of Megasequence AP7."