Author(s)

Kemin Xu¹, Gang Li², Zhenguo Ning¹, Youping Wang¹, Jie Qin¹, Fuzhong Zhang¹, Xiuzhang Li¹, Xueqiang Zhu¹

¹Institute of Geology, Shandong Institute of Geological Survey, Jinan, China.
²State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Center for Excellence in Life and Palaeoenvironment, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Nanjing, China.

The non-marine Cretaceous sequences are well developed in the relict basins, i.e. the Luxi basin in the west, and the Jiaolai basin in the east of Shandong Province. The Lower Cretaceous Santai Formation (140 - 136 Ma) in the Luxi basin contains aeolian dune deposits, which were formed under the control by westerly. The Cretaceous strata of the Jiaolai basin are divided into three groups: i.e. in ascending order, the Laiyang, Qingshan and Wangshi groups. New SHRIMP zircon U-Pb radiometric dating data demonstrated six Cretaceous volcanism episodes. The lower part of the Wangshi Group should be assigned to the upper Lower Cretaceous. An Ir anomaly recovered in the lower Jiaozhou Formation suggests that the Cretaceous/Palaeogene boundary would be in the interval between 537.3 - 537.4 m in the borehole JK1. At last the detailed information about the pre-symposium field excursion was introduced.

Cretaceous, Lithostratigrphy, Chronostratigraphy, Shandong Province, China

Xu, K. , Li, G. , Ning, Z. , Wang, Y. , Qin, J. , Zhang, F. , Li, X. and Zhu, X. (2019) Field Excursion Introduction for IGCP 679 1^st International Symposium: Progress in Cretaceous Geology in Shandong Province, China. Open Journal of Geology, 9, 722-725. doi: 10.4236/ojg.2019.910085.