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Dashtak Formation
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Dashtak Fm base reconstruction

Dashtak Fm


Period: 
Triassic

Age Interval: 
Anisian – Rhaetian, Ir (1,3)


Province: 
Iran

Type Locality and Naming

Column: Zagros belt (general), Column: Iran East

Synonym:


Lithology and Thickness

Limestone.


Lithology Pattern: 
Limestone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

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

Upper contact

Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates the next younger unit as Khane Khat Fm

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils


Age 

Anisian – Rhaetian

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Anisian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
246.70

    Ending stage: 
Rhaetian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
1.0

    Ending date (Ma):  
201.36

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Middle East Geological Timescale 2008 Al-Husseini, Journal of Middle East Petroleum Geosciences v 13, no. 4