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Col Noir Shale Formation
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Col Noir Shale Fm base reconstruction

Col Noir Shale Fm


Period: 
Carboniferous

Age Interval: 
Bashirian


Province: 
Nepal Tethyan Himalaya

Type Locality and Naming

Middle formation in Thini Chu Gr


Lithology and Thickness

Black mudrocks with common ochre-weathering carbonate concretions; up to 160 m thick


Lithology Pattern: 
Claystone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Overlies the Syringothyris Beds Fm of sandstone

Upper contact

Overlain by the Bangba Fm (Thakkhola-Manang region)

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils


Age 

Within Bashkirian

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Bashkirian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.3

    Beginning date (Ma): 
320.93

    Ending stage: 
Bashkirian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.8

    Ending date (Ma):  
316.80

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Extracted from Garzanti (1999, "Stratigraphy and sedimentary history of the Nepal Tethys Himalaya passive margin", Jour. Asian Earth Sci., 17: 805-827]