Ilam Gr
Period:
Cretaceous
Age Interval:
Santonian – Campanian, UAE1
Province:
United Arab Emirates
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.