Upper Fars Fm
Period:
Neogene
Age Interval:
Serravallian – Tortonian, Sr1, UAE1
Province:
Syria, United Arab Emirates
Type Locality and Naming
Column: Syria, Column: United Arab Emirates
Synonym:
Lithology and Thickness
Sandstone and Evaporite. This formation was deposited as an accretionary prism which was uplifted and subsequently eroded with transport of fine silt and mud into a foreland basin. The strata in this formation are diachronous due to the folding and thrusting of facies changes.
Lithology Pattern:
Sandstone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates the next older unit as Lower Fars Fm
Upper contact
Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates the next younger unit as Bakhtiari Fm
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Serravallian - Tortonian
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Serravallian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.0
Beginning date (Ma):
13.82
Ending stage:
Tortonian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.1
Ending date (Ma):
11.19
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. Geology of Iraq pg. 44, 63, 178-183, 186.