Bedinan Fm
Period:
Ordovician, Silurian
Age Interval:
Sandbian – Aeronian, T1
Province:
Turkey
Type Locality and Naming
Column: SE Turkey
Synonym:
Lithology and Thickness
Claystone.
Lithology Pattern:
Claystone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates the next older unit as Afendi Fm
Upper contact
Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates the next younger unit as Dadas Fm
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Sandbian – Aeronian
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Sandbian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.0
Beginning date (Ma):
458.18
Ending stage:
Aeronian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.1
Ending date (Ma):
440.30
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."