Khodzhakul-Quat Fm
Period:
Quaternary
Age Interval:
Neopleistocene, upper link, U5
Province:
Ustyurt-Sultanuzdag
Type Locality and Naming
Named after the Khojakul lake, Sultanuizdag ridge. L.D. Anpleeva, B.I. Pinhasov et al., 1999. Stratotype at Lake Khodzhakul.
Synonym: Khojakul Suite, Ходжакульская св.
Lithology and Thickness
Proluvial coarse rubble in sandy-clayey filler, gravel, sand with gravel and rubble of gray, yellowish-gray color. Thickness up to 18 m.
Lithology Pattern:
Glacial till
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Lies with erosion on the Paleozoic
Upper contact
It is embedded in Karakol deposits.
Regional extent
Sultanuizdag Range. On the northern slope of the ridge, in the gorges cut into the Karakol proluvial plain, to the south - forms a surface lying hypsometrically below the Karakol. Correlated with the Kul'kuduk Fm of the Central Kyzylkum. Used in the stratigraphic scheme of Quaternary deposits (A.I. Kim et al., 2000).
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Quaternary, Neopleistocene, upper link. For Lexicon put as Base Chibanian ("upper Quat")
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Chibanian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.0
Beginning date (Ma):
0.77
Ending stage:
Chibanian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
1.0
Ending date (Ma):
0.13
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
T.M. Kremlyakova – In: GeoGPT translation of: “Abduazimova, Z.M. (Ed.), 2001. Stratigraphic Dictionary of Uzbekistan. IMR (Institute of Mineral Resources), Tashkent, 580 pp. (In Russian)”