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Takelin Formation

Takelin Fm


Period: 
Devonian

Age Interval: 
Upper Frasnian, CK9c


Province: 
Chatkal-Kuramin Region

Type Locality and Naming

By the Takeli mountains, Kuramin ridge. O.I. Sergun'kova, 1965 (457, p.25). Stratotype in the Takeli mountains. The stratigraphic name not used.

Synonym: Takelenskaya Suite, Такелинская св.


Lithology and Thickness

Alternating limestones and marls. Thickness 40m.


Lithology Pattern: 
Limestone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Conformably overlies the Umbetin Fm

Upper contact

Unconformably overlain by the Baraktyn Fm

Regional extent

Kuramin ridge, Takeli and Kalakanata mountains.


GeoJSON

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Fossils


Age 

A. refers the suite to the upper Frasnian substage; included in the composition of the Umbetin Fm (441).

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Frasnian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.8

    Beginning date (Ma): 
372.66

    Ending stage: 
Frasnian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.9

    Ending date (Ma):  
371.88

Depositional setting


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Z.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)”