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Halul Gr
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Halul Gr base reconstruction

Halul Gr


Period: 
Cretaceous

Age Interval: 
Santonian – Campanian, UAE1


Province: 
United Arab Emirates

Type Locality and Naming

Column: United Arab Emirates

Synonym: Halul/Ilam Gr, Ilam Gr


Lithology and Thickness

Limestone. 624 feet of gray, regularly bedded, fine-grained, argillaceous limestone with thin, black, fissile shale partings. Basal bed is silty with large hematite nodules and minor weathering.


Lithology Pattern: 
Limestone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

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

Upper contact

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

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils


Age 

Santonian – Campanian

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Santonian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.7

    Beginning date (Ma): 
84.27

    Ending stage: 
Campanian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.13

    Ending date (Ma):  
82.16

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.