Taldyk Fm
Period:
Quaternary
Age Interval:
Eopleistocene (Gelasian), F1
Province:
Fergana
Type Locality and Naming
Along the Taldyk River, Fergana, Kyrgyzstan. A.S. Telenkov, 1964 (468, p.85). The term is used limitedly.
Synonym: Taldyk Suite, Талдыская св.
Lithology and Thickness
Interbedding of boulder conglomerates and conglomerate breccias (the latter predominate), gravel-sand rocks, polymictic sandstones, and, at a distance from the mountains, siltstone (aleurolites). Thickness up to 950 m.
Lithology Pattern:
Aus Conglomerate
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Lies, sometimes with angular unconformity, on the Akburin Fm
Upper contact
Usually overlain with erosion by the Sokh Gr
Regional extent
Fergana.
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Contains bones of Archidiskodon meridionalis Nesti. (ancient form), Elasmotherium caucasicum Boriss., Camelidae, Cervidae; ostracods - Cyclocypris ovun Jurine, C. serena Koch., Cypris tumefacta Brady, et Roberts.
Age
Age, Along A., late Pliocene (168). Along B.I. Pinhasov, - Eopleistocene. For schematic stratigraphic column representation, it is considered Gelasian
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Gelasian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.5
Beginning date (Ma):
2.19
Ending stage:
Gelasian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
1.0
Ending date (Ma):
1.80
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
B.I. Pinhasov – In: GeoGPT translation of: “Abduazimova, Z.M. (Ed.), 2001. Stratigraphic Dictionary of Uzbekistan. IMR (Institute of Mineral Resources), Tashkent, 580 pp. (In Russian)”