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Paleogene

Cretaceous

Jurassic

Triassic

Permian

Carboniferous

Devonian

Silurian

Ordovician

Cambrian

Neoproterozoic

Mesoproterozoic

Paleoproterozoic

Main source = Abduazimova, Z.M. (Ed.), 2001. Stratigraphic Dictionary of Uzbekistan. IMR (Institute of Mineral Resources), Tashkent, 580 pp. (In Russian) Translated to English by the GeoGPT group, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou, China--see About

Sarykamysh Formation

Sarykamysh Fm

Period:

Cretaceous

Age Interval:

lower Campanian, B1a

Province:
SW Gissar

Type Locality and Naming

Along the village of Sarykamysh, Southwest Gissar. M.R. Jalilov, 1968 (190, p.42). Stratotype on the left bank of the Akkaptchigay gorge, to the S.-E. of the village of Sarykamysh.

Synonym: Sarykamysh Suite, Сарыкамышская св.

Lithology and Thickness

Siltstone (aleurolites), clays, gray, greenish-gray sandstones with layers of limestones and shell rocks. Thickness 84-150m.

Lithology Pattern:

Siltstone

Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Conformably overlies the Kattakamysh Fm or Kuruk Fm (and Akbulak-Cret Fm)

Upper contact

Conformably overlain by the Daralitau Fm

Regional extent

GeoJSON

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Fossils

Contains cephalopod mollusks - Scaphites inflatus Roem., Gissarites kysylchense Iljin; marine bivalve mollusks - Liostrea acutirostris Nils., L. prima Rom., Fatina akkaptschigensis Bobk., Korobkovitrigonia gissarensis Beliak.; gastropods - Trochacteon bobkovi Dzhal.; foraminifers Gaudryinella pseudoasiatica N. Byk., Gavelinella dainae (Mjatl.), Cibicidoides temirensis (Vass.); ostracods - Paijenborchella asiatica Andrv.

Age

Age Span:

Beginning stage:

Campanian

Fraction up in beginning stage:

0.0

Beginning date (Ma):

83.65

Ending stage:

Campanian

Fraction up in the ending stage:

0.5

Ending date (Ma):

77.91

Depositional setting

Depositional pattern:

Additional Information

Compiler:

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