Kendyktyube Formation

Kendyktyube Fm

Period:

Cretaceous

Age Interval:

Middle Turonian, K1-K10

Province:
Kyzylkum Region

Type Locality and Naming

Along the Kendyktube section, Bukantau Mountains, Central Kyzylkum.

I.M. Abdazimova, 1988 (24, p.66), used the name proposed by E.M. Shmariovich et al. (322; 446) for the Kendyktube Mountains. Stratotype in the Kendyktube section area, parastratotype in the Lau-lau Mountains (24).

Synonym: Kendyktyube Suite, Kendyktobin Fm, Кендыктобинская св.

Lithology and Thickness

In the upper part - greenish-gray, tobacco-green clays with siltstone (aleurolite) and sandstone. In the lower part - red mottled sandstones, clays, siltstone (aleurolites). Thickness 10-200m.

Lithology Pattern:

Claystone

Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Unconformably overlies the Dzhayrantuy Fm and transgressively overlies the Paleozoic

Upper contact

Unconformably overlain by the Bissektin Fm in Bukantau; Kynyr-Cret Fm - in Tamdytau; Laulau Fm - in Kuldyktau and Auminzatau; Tohumbet Fm - in the Nurata Mountains.

Regional extent

Central Kyzylkum, foothills of Kuldyktau, Auminzatau, Bukantau, Tamdytau, Muruntau, Kazakhtau; Nurata Mountains. Correlated with the Dasgirak Fm of Southwestern Gissar.

GeoJSON

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Fossils

Upper part – Containing foraminifera, spores, and pollen.

Lower part – Contains marine bivalve mollusks - Liostrea ljangarensis Vinok., L. jaxartensis Sim.; foraminifera - Paragaudryina babaevi Suleim., Gaudryinella pseudoasiatica antiqua Suleim.

Age

Belongs to the middle Turonian, in the Strat. Sl. (446) - to the upper Turonian.

Age Span:

Beginning stage:

Turonian

Fraction up in beginning stage:

0.35

Beginning date (Ma):

92.32

Ending stage:

Turonian

Fraction up in the ending stage:

0.65

Ending date (Ma):

90.97

Depositional setting

Depositional pattern:

Additional Information

Compiler:

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