Talar Fm
Period:
Neogene
Age Interval:
Miocene
Province:
Pakistan Balochistan Basin
Type Locality and Naming
Holotype section: Within Makran Flysch Province (MFP) of the Balochistan Basin
Lithology and Thickness
Clayey sandstone. Sandstone, shale and mudstone. Thickness: not less than 5,000 m thick.
Lithology Pattern:
Clayey sandstone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Conformably underlain by Parkini Fm
Upper contact
Conformably overlain by Hinglaj Fm or Chatti Fm (Hinglaj might be partly coeval)
Regional extent
Makran Flysch Province
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Miocene.
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Messinian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.3
Beginning date (Ma):
6.68
Ending stage:
Messinian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
1.0
Ending date (Ma):
5.34
Depositional setting
From Late Miocene to Early Pleistocene, concurrent with subduction related compressional structuring; there has been a period of slope, shelf and coastal plain progradation during deposition of sandstone-shale package of Pliocene Talar Fm / Hinglaj Fm and the Plio-Pleistocene Chatti Fm (Kazmi and Abbasi, 2008).
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
Nusrat K. Siddiqui