Temirchin Fm
Period:
Cretaceous
Age Interval:
Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian), CK11
Province:
Chatkal-Kuramin Region
Type Locality and Naming
Along the city of Temirchi, Prishashkent Chulys G.A. Belenky, 1966 (96, p.110). Stratotype in the area of the city of Temirchi, 5 km east of the Dzhilga railway station. Previously, this suite was called the upper Darbazinskaya subsuite (298).
Synonym: Temirchinskaya Suite, upper Darbazinskaya, Темирчинская св.
Lithology and Thickness
Clays, sandstones, siltstone (aleurolites) red, pink, green, spotted. Thickness 16-65 m.
Lithology Pattern:
Clayey sandstone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Overlies with erosion on the Darbaza Fm
Upper contact
It is overlapped transgressively by the Paleocene.
Regional extent
Prishashkent Chulys, in the Tashkent depression, revealed by drilling.
GeoJSON
null
Fossils
Contains charophyte algae - Atopachara sp.
Age
Conditionally attributed to the Maastrichtian; According to A., - to the Danian Montu; According to N.E. Minakova (298), - to the upper Senonian; According to R.Yu. Muzafarova (322), - to the Campanian; in the Strat. sl. (446) - to the Danian - Paleocene.
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Maastrichtian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.5
Beginning date (Ma):
69.11
Ending stage:
Maastrichtian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
1.0
Ending date (Ma):
66.04
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
I.M. Abdouazimova – In: GeoGPT translation of: “Abduazimova, Z.M. (Ed.), 2001. Stratigraphic Dictionary of Uzbekistan. IMR (Institute of Mineral Resources), Tashkent, 580 pp. (In Russian)”