Chatagai Fm
Period:
Jurassic
Age Interval:
Middle-Late Jurassic (J2-3 Ct), BMP1; P1
Province:
East Tajik (Central Pamir)
Type Locality and Naming
Includes in Bozbaital horst - Murghab basin, Karasu silver-Pangazdjilga thrust sheet
Synonym: Chatagai suite, Chatagay Fm
Reference section:
Lithology and Thickness
The lithology column of Rutte et al., 2017 indicates white limestone, black shale, pebbly sandstone and marl
Lithology Pattern:
Clayey limestone
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
The schematic stratigraphic column indicates the lower contact as Murkallin Fm
Upper contact
Rutte'17 has unnamed Cret-Paleog? Murghab basin Congl, marl, sandstone, volcanics
Regional extent
It is widespread in the Central Pamir in area of the Soviet Officers Peak.
GeoJSON
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Fossils
Age
Middle-Late Jurassic
Age Span:
Beginning stage:
Bathonian
Fraction up in beginning stage:
0.0
Beginning date (Ma):
168.17
Ending stage:
Oxfordian
Fraction up in the ending stage:
1.0
Ending date (Ma):
154.78
Depositional setting
Depositional pattern:
Additional Information
Compiler:
Extracted from Rutte, D., L. Ratschbacher, S. Schneider, K. Stübner, M. A. Stearns, M. A. Gulzar, and B. R. Hacker (2017), Building the Pamir-Tibetan Plateau—Crustal stacking, extensional collapse, and lateral extrusion in the Central Pamir: 1. Geometry and kinematics, Tectonics, 36, 342–384, doi:10.1002/2016TC004293, Extracted from Baratov, R. B. (1976). Subdivisions of stratified and intrusive rocks of Tajikistan. Donish, Dushanbe, 276.