Barind Clay Fm
Period:
Quaternary
Age Interval:
late Pleistocene
Province:
Bangladesh NW
Type Locality and Naming
Lithology and Thickness
Reddish brown to yellowish clay, silty clay and silty sand with minor pebbles. Overlain by Bengal alluvial.
Lithology Pattern:
Soil
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Conformable onto Dihing Fm of fluvial pebbly sands
Upper contact
Holocene alluvium of fluvial plain deposits
Regional extent
Stable platform of NW Bangladesh
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Late Pleistocene
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Calabrian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.5
Beginning date (Ma):
1.29
Ending stage:
Holocene
Fraction up in the ending stage:
1.0
Ending date (Ma):
0.00
Depositional setting
Floodplain and soils
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
Extracts from Md. Shamsul Islam and Md. Jahangir Alam (2009, "Geological aspects of soil formation in Bangladesh", conference paper in ResearchGate); and from Md. Alam et al. (2003, "An overview of the sedimentary geology of the Bengal Basin in relation to the regional tectonic framework and basin-fill history", Sedimentary Geology, 155: 179-208.)