IJOG : Indonesian Journal on Geoscience
Vol 5, No 2 (2018)

Stratigraphical and Sedimentological Review of the Merawu Formation, Serayu Basin, Central Jawa, Indonesia

Martosuwito, Surono ( Universiti Malaysia Kelantan)
Bachri, Syaiful ( Geological Survey Institute, Geological Agency Bandung)
Kamal, Zakiyah Ainul ( Universiti Malaysia Kelantan)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Apr 2018

Abstract

DOI: 10.17014/ijog.5.2.117-128Merawu Formation is widely distributed in the Serayu Basin, Central Jawa, Indonesia. The formation is dominated by fine-grained clastic sediments comprising interbedded mudstone, siltstone, and sandstone. In the field, these outcrops are well exposed and well bedded. Stratigraphically, the Merawu Formation is underlain by the Paleocene Worawari Formation and overlain by the Late Miocene Penyatan Formation. Contacts between the Merawu Formation and the Worawari Formation are always found as fault types. Twelve sections have been done during the field work. Two members were identified within the Merawu Formation (Sandstone and Mudstone Members) in the field, where they interfinger each other. Previously, researchers interpreted the Merawu Formation as a turbidite sequence of deep marine deposits and depicted Early - Middle Miocene in age. However, the interpretation from the present research shows that the Merawu Formation was deposited on a tidal flat environment and has Early Miocene - Pliocene age, based on foraminifers found in some sections.

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Journal Info

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IJOG

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Subject

Earth & Planetary Sciences

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The spirit to improve the journal to be more credible is increasing, and in 2012 it invited earth scientists in East and Southeast Asia as well as some western countries to join the journal for the editor positions in the Indonesia Journal of Geology. This is also to realize our present goal to ...