DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Table 2.

OPEN-FILE REPORT 86-502
PLATE 20F2

Stratigraphy of the Songliao Basin, Northeastern China

(After Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, 1982; Gu, 1982; Institute of
Geology, Academia Simia, 1958; Li, 1982; liu, Xu, and Huang, 1981; Ma, Yang,
Ding, and Guan, 1984; Wang and liu, 1980; Wang, Zhang, Zhang, and Tan, 1983;
and Xu and Wang, 1981)

Stratigraphy of the Songliao Basin, Northeastern China (cont.)

: . Thickness . ae Petroleum Geology
Era System Series Formation | Member in Lithology and Description Remarks.
Meters Source Rocks Reservoir and Rock Types Cap Rocks
Quaternary 133 Clay, silt, sand, gravel and glacial deposits. Commercial oil and gas are
i. . Neogene Taikang O—122 Sandstone, conglomerate, siltstone and mudstone. concentrated in the Yangda-
Cenozoic Tertiary 9 Daan Oo Sensor, conglomeratic sandstone, mudstone and chengai, Fuyu'Gaotaisi
Pal 7 siltstone. i 4°
eogene Yian, O-221 Mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, conglomerate and Puraonule, ;Sheertu, and
lignite beds. Locally tuffaceous. a Heidimiao Reservoirs (Ma,
. . 2 0—354 Mudstone intercalated with conglomerate. Yang, Ding and Guan, 1984;
Upper Mingshui Fig. 1).
Cret 1 0—243 Sandstone and mudstone interbeds. The Nenjiang Formation is
retaceous 7 7 , given a late Early Cretaceous
Sifangtai 0—394 Mudstone and siltstone with basal conglomerate. age (Albian Stage) by Xu
a) and Wang, 1981; but Ma,
Mudstone, shale, siltstone and sandstone. Yang, Ding and Guan,
5 0—355 Shale and mudstone assigned to an Early
Senonian age (1984, Fig. 1)
Shale, mudstone, siltstone and sandstone. Heidimiao, irregular floodplain and as well as Wang and Liu, to
4 234—304 deltaic distributary plain, medium- alate Middle Cretaceous age
Nenjiang’ fine and poorly to well sorted (1980; p. 276, Table 16-II).
3 70—131 Shale and mudstone with reef-limestone and bioclastic sandstone; and deltaic front bar, Upper Jurassic stratigraphy
limestone and marl. sheeted and lenticular, well sorted chiefly based on Wang and
Shale, siltstone and mudstone with marl, limestone, Mudstone, shale, oil- medium-fine sandstone. Locally Shale and mudstone Liu (1980; p. 252-254) and
2 170—251 and oil-shale. shale and marl reef limestone. Institute of Geology,
: : Academia Sinica (1958, p.
1 27—222 Shale, oil shale and in sedimentary facies | Shale, oil-shale ge oy RC pee 121-124).
ee = Shale and mudstone, contact with fluvial, sandstone. -
Yaojia 2A 72150 deltaic, overbank and Shale ‘and mudetone
1 0—78 Siltstone and_sandstone, floodplain deposits Putaohua, deltaic front well-sorted
Shale, limestone, siltstone chiefly of sandstone, Shale and mudstone sandstone. Shale and mudstone
23 273503 and mildistone, a ae Gaotaizi, floodplain and deltaic front, :
Middle Qingshankou _ basin border in a medium-fine, fairly to well sorted,
es ae irregular and sheeted sandstone.
rir celal Locally reef limestone.
Cretaceous 1 72—131 Shale, oil-shale and mudstone, , ” Shale and oil-shale
4 65—98, Mudstone, shale and sandstone with oil-shale. Mudstone Fuyu, irregular fluvial medium-grained Mudstone and shale @ Commercial oil
Mudstone and sandstone interbeds. Mudstone ad — - I]
s Yangdachengzi, irregular flood plain
Cretaceous and deltaic distributary plain, . P
3 451—672 medium-fine and poorly to well- 3H Commercial oil and gas
sorted sandstone; and deltaic front
bar, sheeted and lenticular, well-
sorted medium-fine sandstone. O Gas show
Quant Mudstone and shale interbeds. Mudstone and shale
. ou
Mesozoic 2 212-417
Sandstone, conglomeratic sandstone, and mudstone Nongan, fluvial and fluvial-deltaic,
dominated around the basin border. medium-fine and poorly to well
sorted and irregular to sheeted
1 356—651 sandstone. Locally channel
sandstone and conglomerate.
4 134212 Sandstone and mudstone interbeds.
Mudstone and sandstone interbeds.
3 250—621
Lower Denlouk
c lentouku Mudstone, shale and sandstone. Mudstone and shale
retaceous
2 302—700
1 119—220 Sandstone, conglomeratic sandstone and mudstone. *
Sandstone, conglomeratic sandstone, quartzite and Shale
conglomerate interbedded with andesite, tuff, shale
and mineable coal.
. Upper
Jurassic . 550—1,300
Jurassic
Early Mesozoic and Late Paleozoic biotite and biotite-
hornblende granites. Limestone, shale, and
sandstone partially metamorphosed into marble,
p 7 hornfels, shale, and quartzite.
. ‘ermian—
Paleozoic .
Carboniferous ?

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