The Crato Member is one of the most important stratigraphic units of the Araripe Basin due to its fossil content, its context analogous to the Brazilian “Pre-Salt Layers”, and its use as covering stone. Facies and petrographic analyses were combined in our study of a section of the Crato Member in Nova Olinda (State of Ceará, Brazil), aiming to investigate its depositional and diagenetic history. Thus, we analy...
The Crato Membre is one of the main stratigraphic units of the Araripe Sedimentary Basin, renowned mainly for the laminated limestone rich in diversified fossils of Albian-Aptian age, worth a title offossil Konservat-Lagerstütte. In the same unit, less famous massive layers of some tabular, decimetres-thick fine sandstones occur interlayered with green shales and limestones, composing an mixed sedimentation. In...