Neogene

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

Sulyuktin Formation

Sulyuktin Fm

Period:

Carboniferous

Age Interval:

Upper Visean, N5a

Province:
Nuratau

Type Locality and Naming

Along the Suyukta River, Turkestan Range. 3.S. Rumyantseva, 1973 (387, p. 76). Stratotype on the Akbuke River, above the Aibulak spring.

Synonym: Sulyuktinskaya Svita, Сулюктинская св.

Lithology and Thickness

Thin-bedded limestones interbedded with oolitic, algal-foraminiferal, nodular, aphanitic, and crinoidal limestones. Thickness 100-135m.

Lithology Pattern:

Oolitic limestone

Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

It lies transgressively on the Upper Silurian

Upper contact

It is unconformably overlain by limestones of the Early Bashkirian Middle Carboniferous age (Bukharin et al., 1996; 439).

Regional extent

Northern slope of the Turkestan Range.

GeoJSON

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Fossils

Contains foraminifers - Earlandia vulgaris Raus. et Reitl., Plectogyra prisca Raus. et Reitl.; corals - Palaeosmilia murchisoni E. et H., P. nodosa Kabak.; brachiopods - Gigantoproductus giganteus Mart., Antiquatonia insculpta M.-W.

Age

In the monograph (165) it is referred to the Serpukhovian stage

Age Span:

Beginning stage:

Visean

Fraction up in beginning stage:

0.5

Beginning date (Ma):

338.54

Ending stage:

Serpukhovian

Fraction up in the ending stage:

0.5

Ending date (Ma):

326.87

Depositional setting

Depositional pattern:

Additional Information

Compiler:

I.M. Nigmadzhanov, 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)”