Hofuf Fm
Period:
Neogene
Age Interval:
Tortonian - Calabrian, Sa (1,2), Qa1
Province:
Saudi Arabia, Qatar
Type Locality and Naming
Column: Saudi Arabia Outcrop, Saudi Arabia Subsurface, Qatar
Synonym:
Lithology and Thickness
Cream to sandy marl and cream rubbly weathering, compact sandy limestone, with minor amounts of calcareous sandstone and shales. The basal beds in some areas are marly sandstone which include many quartz pebbles.
Lithology Pattern:
Coarse-grained sandstone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates the next older unit as Dam Fm
Upper contact
Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates this is the youngest unit
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Tortonian – Calabrian
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Tortonian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.1
Beginning date (Ma):
11.19
Ending stage:
Calabrian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.4
Ending date (Ma):
1.39
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. Steineke et. al., 1958, Page 1310