Golodnostep Gr

Period:

Quaternary

Age Interval:

Calabrian, CK1

Province:
Chatkal-Kuramin Region

Type Locality and Naming

Along the Golodnaya Steppe, left bank of the Syrdarya River. N.P.Vasilkovsky, Yu.A.Skvortsov, 1935 (128, p.18).

Synonym: Golodnostep Complex, Голодностепский компл.

Lithology and Thickness

This complex in the high mountainous areas includes glacial deposits of the Cholmansai moraine; in the mid-mountain, foothill, and plain areas, alluvial deposits of the III floodplain terrace or alluvial-proluvial deposits of merged alluvial fans forming a sub-mountainous fan tail; on mountain slopes and intermountain valleys, subazonal deposits of the lower part of the Sukoy Fm. Thickness up to 50-70 m.

Lithology Pattern:

Glacial till

Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

In the mountain zone, it lies with erosion on deposits of different ages, and on the plain, it is conformable on the sediments of the Tashkent Gr

Upper contact

Regional extent

Basin of the Syr Darya River, Malguzar and Nurata Mountains, Kashkadarya Region.

GeoJSON

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Fossils

It contains bone remains of the mammoth complex fauna (absolute age of about 39,000 years), tools of the late Paleolithic and late Mousterian. The mountain and foothill fauna of rodents includes - Ellobius (Ellobius) talpinus, E. talpinus, Mus (Mus) Musculus, Cricetulus (Cricetulus) migratorius, Alticola (Alticola) argentatus, Microtus (Beanfordimys) afghanus, M. (Microtus) arvalis, M.(M) trancaspicus, Citellus (Colobotis) fulvus, Allactaga (Allactaga) elatar, Rattus turcestanicus, Meriones (Pallasiomys) maridianus, M. (Pallasiomys) erythrourus. Along the Kelif River, N.V. Cherkashenko discovered horse teeth in 1963. In the valleys of the Bozsu and Karakamysh rivers, G.F. Tetiukhin found saiga bones, fragments of the humerus of Equus sp., the late Pleistocene age of which was confirmed by radiometric analysis. Very often, together with bone remains, flint chips from the late Paleolithic period are found. Of particular interest is the large human settlement "Kulbulak" (Angren River valley), a Paleolithic open-air settlement - late Acheulean (110-120 thousand years) - late Paleolithic (10-35 thousand years). Here, stone tools from the Mousterian period were discovered. And 1.5 km from the "Kulbulak" settlement, there are preserved rock paintings of Siberian ibex from the late Paleolithic (Mikulin et al., 1982). Pollen analysis showed the presence of herbaceous plants, wormwood, and many cereals typical of the hungry steppe age

Age

Paleontological and archaeological finds date the age of G. ser. as the Neopleistocene, upper link. Along Kh.A. Toychiev (471v), the deposits are magnetized in the epoch of normal polarity.

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)”