Azkamar Gr
Period:
Quaternary
Age Interval:
Neopleistocene, Z5
Province:
Zarafshan-N.Gissar
Type Locality and Naming
Along the Azkamar Plateau, South-Western Uzbekistan. G.F. Tetukhin, M.M. Ivanitsin 195lr (127, p.22). Stratotype - Azkamar Plateau. Upper terraces and corresponding alluvial cones.
Synonym: Azkamar Complex, Азкамарский компл.
Lithology and Thickness
Rubble-sandy deposits, gravelites, breccias with compacted loess-like rocks (shohi), with lenses of sand and gravelite. Thickness 200-800m.
Lithology Pattern:
Aus Conglomerate
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Unconformably overlies the Tashakyr Fm.
Upper contact
The Karnab Gr (complex) is embedded in it.
Regional extent
Basins of the Kashkadarya and Zarafshan rivers, Zirabulak-Ziaetdin region. Corresponds to the Nanay Gr (complex), Aytym Fm and Knyazbulak Fm (444; 445; 458).
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Neopleistocene
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Calabrian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.0
Beginning date (Ma):
1.80
Ending stage:
Lt. Pleist.
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.0
Ending date (Ma):
0.13
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)”