Karatepin-Quat Fm
Period:
Quaternary
Age Interval:
Neopleistocene, Z1
Province:
Zarafshan-N.Gissar
Type Locality and Naming
Along the Karatepa elevation, the foothills of the Zarafshan Range. S.A. Nesmeianov, 1973 (325, p.91). The stratigraphic name is not used.
Synonym: Karatepinian Suite, Каратепинская св.
Lithology and Thickness
Boulder-pebble-gravel deposits. Thickness up to 200 m.
Lithology Pattern:
Aus Conglomerate
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Lies discordantly on the Guzar Fm and older formations
Upper contact
Overlying deposits are not specified
Regional extent
Magianskaya depression, Zarafshan Range. It is correlated with the Kulab Fm
GeoJSON
null
Fossils
Age
The age of which, according to A., is late Pliocene-early Quaternary. A.I. Smolko". Str. sl. (444). In the modern understanding - Neopleistocene.
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Gelasian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.0
Beginning date (Ma):
2.58
Ending stage:
Holocene
Fraction up in the ending stage:
1.0
Ending date (Ma):
0.00
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)”