Morro Solar Group (original) (raw)

The Morro Solar Group (Spanish: Grupo Morro Solar) is a stratigraphic group of Mesozoic-aged sedimentary formations exposed near Lima, Peru. The groups formations more specifically of Berriasian and Valanginian age (Early Cretaceous) and overlies the Jurassic and underlies the Cretaceous . The Morro Solar Group is intruded by sills of andesitic composition. Together with the Casma and , the Morro Solar Group contains clastic volcanosedimentary material derivative of the Mesozoic . The formations of the group hosts mostly local fossils which do not have counterparts for biochronological correlation in other regions.