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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

Suffin-Carb Formation

Suffin-Carb Fm

Period:

Carboniferous

Age Interval:

Lower Bashkirian, B1, B2

Province:
Bukhara-SW Gissar

Type Locality and Naming

Along the Suffe River, southern slope of the Gissar Range. F.R. Bensh, 1969 (457, pp. 52-62). Stratotype in the lower reaches of the Suffe River, above the village of Trushoag.

Synonym: Suffinskaya Suite, Суффинская св.

Lithology and Thickness

Interbedding of flaggy cherts, claystone (argillites) with horizons of tuff-siltstone (aleurolites), "goniatite" limestones. Thickness 650 to 1200 m.

Lithology Pattern:

Chert

Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Conformably overlies, locally transgressively, the Vakhshivar Fm. According to M. Nigmatjanov, it conformably overlies the Badavin Fm

Upper contact

It is conformably overlain, locally with erosion, by the Sagdor Fm.

Regional extent

Gissar Range, basins of the Tupolang, Shirkent, Karatag, Khanaka, Lyuchob, Varzob, southern Surkhan-Tau, northern Baysun-Tau, Karasan and Susyztau mountains.

GeoJSON

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Fossils

Contains foraminifers - Asteroarchaediscus baschciricus (Krest. et Theod.), Ammodiscus multivolutus Reitl., Semistaffella variabilis Reitl., Pseudostaffella antiqua (Dutk.); conodonts - Declinognathodus noduliferus El. et Gr., Idiognathoides sinuatus H.

Age

Belongs to the Lower substage of the Bashkirian stage of the Middle Carboniferous. (165; 439; 460).

Age Span:

Beginning stage:

Bashkirian

Fraction up in beginning stage:

0.0

Beginning date (Ma):

323.40

Ending stage:

Bashkirian

Fraction up in the ending stage:

0.7

Ending date (Ma):

317.63

Depositional setting

Depositional pattern:

Additional Information

Compiler:

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