Zaafarana Wardan Fm
Period:
Neogene
Age Interval:
Zanclean – Calabrian, Eg1
Province:
Egypt Gulf of Suez
Type Locality and Naming
Column: Egypt Gulf of Suez
Synonym:
Lithology and Thickness
Limestones, oolitic limestones, chalk, anhydrite: shale, massively bedded limestone, marly chalk, oolitic limestones, coarse clastic interbeds.
Lithology Pattern:
Clayey limestone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Regionally, the schematic strat column indicates the next older unit as Zeit Fm
Upper contact
This is the youngest unit
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Zanclean – Calabrian
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Zanclean
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.4
Beginning date (Ma):
4.64
Ending stage:
Calabrian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.4
Ending date (Ma):
1.39
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. Schütz, 1994, Pg 92