Kyzylkain Fm
Period:
Paleogene
Age Interval:
latest Eocene (earliest Priabonian)
Province:
Zaisan (Zaysan) Basin - East
Type Locality and Naming
Synonym: E3kz
Lithology and Thickness
18.6 m of Fine- and very fine-grained quartz sands, micaceous, ferruginous, light gray, white, bright yellow.
Lithology Pattern:
Fine-grained sandstone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
Unconformable onto the Sargamys Fm
Upper contact
Regional extent
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
latest Eocene (only shown as earliest Priabonian; very brief)
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Priabonian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.0
Beginning date (Ma):
37.71
Ending stage:
Priabonian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
0.1
Ending date (Ma):
37.33
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
Information provided by Nariman Jamikeshev from Kazakh-language sources and from other publications.