Berwath Fm
Period:
Carboniferous
Age Interval:
Visean, Sa (1,2,4)
Province:
Saudi Arabia
Type Locality and Naming
Column: Saudi Arabia Outcrop, Saudi Arabia Subsurface, NW Saudi Arabia
Synonym:
Lithology and Thickness
Alternating layers of Shale and Reservoir.
Lithology Pattern:
Coarse-grained sandstone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates the next older unit as Jubah Fm
Upper contact
Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates the next younger unit as Juwayl Mbr Wajid Sandstone Fm
Regional extent
GeoJSON
{"type":"Feature","geometry":{"type":"MultiPolygon","coordinates":[[[[37.83,31.31],[38.32,30.3],[36.6,29.14],[38.74,27.08],[40.72,27.72],[40.75,28.97],[43.46,26.36],[45.18,24.09],[42.8,19.52],[43.31,19.05],[43.67,17.53],[44.35,19.47],[47.53,19.39],[48.12,21.49],[50.63,21.85],[51,23.96],[50.2,26.32],[50.83,26.34],[51.66,27.47],[49.89,30.05],[48.8,29.69],[48.58,28.47],[47.73,28.37],[47.42,28.86],[45.63,29.01],[44.28,28.4],[41.73,30.2],[41.57,31.16],[39.73,31.76],[37.83,31.31]]]]}}
Fossils
Age
Visean
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Visean
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.2
Beginning date (Ma):
343.45
Ending stage:
Visean
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.6
Ending date (Ma):
336.90
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
From Middle East Geological Timescale 2008 Al-Husseini, Journal of Middle East Petroleum Geosciences v 13, no. 4