Seydisehir Fm
Period:
Cambrian, Ordovician
Age Interval:
Cambrian Stage 10 – Tremadocian, T1
Province:
Turkey
Type Locality and Naming
Column: SE Turkey
Synonym:
Lithology and Thickness
Claystone. It is clayey and contains turbidites. Interfingers with Amud near the bottom.
Lithology Pattern:
Claystone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates the next older unit as Amud Fm
Upper contact
Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates the next younger unit as Bedinan Fm
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Cambrian Stage 10 – Tremadocian
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Cambrian Stage 10
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.5
Beginning date (Ma):
488.93
Ending stage:
Tremadocian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.9
Ending date (Ma):
478.06
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
From S. Z. Jassim and J. C. Goff, Geology of Iraq, 2006. pg 92, Fig. 8-1: "Stratigraphic correlation of megasequences AP1 to AP5 for Iraq and surrounding countries."