Aksham Moraine Fm
Period:
Quaternary
Age Interval:
Calabrian, CK5
Province:
Chatkal-Kuramin Region
Type Locality and Naming
Along the Aksham ridge, Chatkal-Kuramin region. Identified as a moraine based on data from A.R. Blazhie in icha (Safarov et al., 1999f).
Synonym: Aksham Moraine, Акшамская морена
Lithology and Thickness
Remnants of the main and terminal moraines of various stages, composed of poorly sorted boulders with fragments of poor and medium roundness on a gravel-sand-clayey filler. Thickness of moraine body 30-50m.
Lithology Pattern:
Glacial till
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Upper contact
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Quaternary Neopleistocene Middle Link. For schematic stratigraphic representation, it is placed in Calabrian.
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Calabrian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.0
Beginning date (Ma):
1.80
Ending stage:
Calabrian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
1.0
Ending date (Ma):
0.77
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
M.V. Mikulin – In: GeoGPT translation of: “Abduazimova, Z.M. (Ed.), 2001. Stratigraphic Dictionary of Uzbekistan. IMR (Institute of Mineral Resources), Tashkent, 580 pp. (In Russian)”