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Shwethamin Formation
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Shwethamin Fm base reconstruction

Shwethamin Fm

Period: 
Neogene

Age Interval: 
Middle-Late Miocene


Province: 
Myanmar Central Basins

Type Locality and Naming

Chindwin Basin, [Original Publication: Barber, A. J., Khin Zaw & Crow, M. J. (eds) 2017. Myanmar: Geology, Resources and Tectonics. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 48, 219–260]

[Figure: Map showing location of sub-basins of the Central Myanmar Basin (after Myint Thein and M. Maung 2017)]


Lithology and Thickness

Sandstone. Shwethamin Fm is composed of sandstones, light grey, light yellow-brown, massive, friable, cross-bedded, with local conglomerate lenses toward base.

[Figure: Stratigraphic succession of the Chindwin Basin (after Than Htut, 2017)]


Lithology Pattern: 
Sandstone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Conformable with Natma Fm

Upper contact

Unconformable with Irrawaddy Fm

Regional extent

It is developed in Chindwin Basin.

[Figure: a) Composite stratigraphic correlation of Myanmar Central Basins (after Than et al., 2017)]


GeoJSON

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Fossils


Age 

Middle-Late Miocene

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Serravallian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.5

    Beginning date (Ma): 
12.72

    Ending stage: 
Tortonian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.5

    Ending date (Ma):  
9.44

Depositional setting

Under fluviatile conditions.


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Than Htut, Kapesa Lokho, D.S.N.Raju and Ravi Misra (Than Htut, Myanmar petroleum systems, including the offshore area, Chapter 11 in Barber, A. J., Khin Zaw & Crow, M. J. (eds) 2017. Myanmar: Geology, Resources and Tectonics. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 48, 219–260)