Minagish Fm

Period:

Cretaceous

Age Interval:

Berriasian – Valanginian, Kw1

Province:
Kuwait

Type Locality and Naming

Column: Kuwait; Lower formation in Thamama Gr in Kuwait

Synonym:

Lithology and Thickness

Limestone

Lithology Pattern:

Limestone

Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

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

Upper contact

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

Regional extent

GeoJSON

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Fossils

Age

Berriasian – Valanginian

Age Span:

Beginning stage:

Berriasian

Fraction up in beginning stage:

0.8

Beginning date (Ma):

138.78

Ending stage:

Valanginian

Fraction up in the ending stage:

0.7

Ending date (Ma):

134.13

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.