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Urumbash Formation

Urumbash Fm


Period: 
Cretaceous

Age Interval: 
upper Cenomanian - upper Turonian, F3


Province: 
Fergana

Type Locality and Naming

Along the Urumbash River, right tributary of the Kugart River, Fergana. N.N. Verzilin, 1962 (139, p.74). Stratotype in the Kugart River basin. Lower formation in the Varzyk Gr

Synonym: Urumbash Suite, Урумбашская св.


Lithology and Thickness

Red, pink conglomerates, gravelites with layers of greenish-gray clays and limestones. Thickness 5-60m.


Lithology Pattern: 
Aus Conglomerate


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

With erosion on Karaalmin Fm

Upper contact

It is overlain conformably by Yalovach Fm

Regional extent

N.-E. and N. Fergana.


GeoJSON

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Fossils

Contains marine bivalve mollusks - Rhynchostreon columbum (Lam.), Megatrigonia turkestanensis (Arkh.), Plicatula turkestanensis (Born.). Zaneraet with erosion on Karaalmin Fm


Age 

Along the Decision ... ,1977 (383), in the Strat. sl. (446) and Along N.N. Verzilin (139), - to upper Cenomanian - upper Turonian. It is an analog of the oyster t. I.M. Abdouazimova

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Cenomanian

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.75

    Beginning date (Ma): 
95.55

    Ending stage: 
Turonian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
0.5

    Ending date (Ma):  
91.65

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)"