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Huraysan Formation
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Huraysan Fm base reconstruction

Huraysan Fm


Period: 
Cretaceous

Age Interval: 
Aptian – Albian, Sa1


Province: 
Saudi Arabia

Type Locality and Naming

Column: Saudi Arabia Outcrop

Synonym:


Lithology and Thickness

Gray, green, and, red, silty fine-grained sandstone and coarse siltstone, relatively thin-bedded.


Lithology Pattern: 
Sandstone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

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

Upper contact

Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates the next younger unit as Majma 2 Fm

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils


Age 

Aptian – Albian

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Aptian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.8

    Beginning date (Ma): 
114.84

    Ending stage: 
Albian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.5

    Ending date (Ma):  
106.85

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 1309