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Co Phuc Formation

Co Phuc Fm


Period: 
Paleogene

Age Interval: 
Oligocene; E3, (8)


Province: 
West Bac Bo

Type Locality and Naming

Upper Red River Valley. The type section is located on the car road from Yen Bai to Ngoi Hop (N = 21°46’; E = 104°48’) . It was named by Tran Dinh Nhan and Trinh Dzanh (1975).

Synonym: Điệp Cồ Phúc: Trần Đình Nhân, Trinh Dánh 1975; Trịnh Dánh 1979, (in Dương Xuân Hào và nnk .) 1980,1985 , 1993 (Miocen muộn). Hệ tầng Cỗ Phúc: Trịnh Dánh (in Vũ Khúc và nnk.) 2000 (Miocen muộn). Neogen (part.): Dovjikov A.E. et al. 1965. Miocen: Trần Đình Nhân (in Trần Vãn Trị và nnk.) 1977. Hệ tầng Na Dương (part.): Trịnh Dánh (in Phan Cự Tiến và nnk.) 1989; (in Vũ Khúc, Bùi Phú Mỹ và nnk. 1990) ( Miocen muộn). Tập sh2: Ụguycn Xuân Huyên và nnk. 2004 (Oligocen)


Lithology and Thickness

Sandstone and claystone: (1). Yellowish to yellowish-grey fine-grained sandstone and greenish-grey medium-grained muscovite-bcaring sandstone, 130-240 m thick; (2). Rhythmic intercalation of brown-grey, dark-grey claystone, claystone and greenish-grey fine-grained sandstone containing some thin lenses of lignite, 130-260 m thick. The total thickness of the formation in this section is 260-500 m.


Lithology Pattern: 
Sandy claystone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Conformable on the Van Yen Fm.

Upper contact

Unconformably under the Au Lau Fm.

Regional extent


GeoJSON

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Fossils

Containing the Leaf impressions Ficus beauveriei, Typha ỉatìssima, Cornus buchii, Oreodaphne heeri, Dalbergia sp. -- Ficus beauveriei, Quercus neriifoiia, Qu. gỉauca, Âlnus smalhauserti, Diospyros brachysepala, Fagus antipofii, Carpinus viminea, Saỉvỉnia formosa, Magnolia janchinii, Machilus nathorsti belonging to the Na Duong Flora of Oligocene age. Cicatricosisporites dorogensis, Verrutricolporites pachydermus, Pinuspollenites sp. Molluscs Tulotoma cf. stun and Unio sp..


Age 

Oligocene.

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Rupelian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
33.90

    Ending stage: 
Chattian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
1.0

    Ending date (Ma):  
23.04

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  

Additional Information


Compiler:  

Tran Van Tri and Vu Khuc (Editors; Geology and Earth Resources of Viet Nam, General Dept. of Geology and Minerals of Viet Nam; completed in Dec., 2011), with additional details from Tong-Dzuy Thanh and Vu Khuc (Editors; Stratigraphic Units of Viet Nam, 2nd edition; 2011; English edited by A. Boucot).