Kaplankul Formation

Kaplankul Fm

Period:

Neogene

Age Interval:

Lower Pliocene (?), F1

Province:
Fergana

Type Locality and Naming

Along Kaplankul Lake, Fergana, Kyrgyzstan. A.S. Telenkov, 1964 (468, p.83). The term is used in a limited sense.

Synonym: Kaplankul Suite, Капланкульская св.

Reference section:

Lithology and Thickness

Brick-chocolate siltstone (aleurolites), pattums with layers of sandstones. Up to 360m.

Lithology Pattern:

Siltstone

Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Lies conformably on Aldyr Fm

Upper contact

Unconformably overlain by Papan Fm or Akburin Fm.

Regional extent

South-East Fergana. V.I. Popov et al. (166) correlate it with the Surkhob suite of Darvaza (Tajikistan), and in North-3. Fergana with the upper part of the gypsiferous suite A2 of N.P. Vasilkovsky's scheme (126). Along B.I. Pinhasov, corresponds to the upper part of the Obchak Fm.

GeoJSON

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Fossils

Contains ostracods - Cypridis littaralis Br., Iliocypris bradyi Sars., I. G. Gibba Ramd., Eucypris porsugelensis Mast.

Age

Age, Along A., - late Miocene. Along B.I. Pinhasov, conditionally Lower Pliocene. For schematic stratigraphic column representation, it is considered Zanclean

Age Span:

Beginning stage:

Zanclean

Fraction up in beginning stage:

0.5

Beginning date (Ma):

4.47

Ending stage:

Zanclean

Fraction up in the ending stage:

1.0

Ending date (Ma):

3.60

Depositional setting

Depositional pattern:

Additional Information

Compiler:

B.I. Pinhasov – In: GeoGPT translation of: “Abduazimova, Z.M. (Ed.), 2001. Stratigraphic Dictionary of Uzbekistan. IMR (Institute of Mineral Resources), Tashkent, 580 pp. (In Russian)”