Sardar Fm
Period:
Carboniferous
Age Interval:
Bashkirian – Moscovian, Ir2
Province:
Iran
Type Locality and Naming
Column: Central Iran
Synonym:
Lithology and Thickness
Thickness of ~750m. The upper 200m are olive-green silty soft-weathering shales.
Lithology Pattern:
Claystone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates the next older unit as Ozbak Kuh Gr
Upper contact
Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates this is the youngest unit
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Unfossiliferous except for one section which contains bryozoans.
Age
Bashkirian – Moscovian
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Bashkirian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.0
Beginning date (Ma):
323.40
Ending stage:
Moscovian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
1.0
Ending date (Ma):
307.02
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
Middle East Geological Timescale 2008 Al-Husseini, Journal of Middle East Petroleum Geosciences v 13, no. 4