Syrdarya Gr
Type Locality and Naming
Includes in Fergana Valley, Isfara River
Synonym: Syrdarya complex, Сырцарьинский комплекс
Lithology and Thickness
Alluvial gravels, sands and silt. It consists of alluvial gravels, sands and silt of modern channels, floodplains and first supra-floodplain terraces with a thickness of 1-8 m, as well as associated proluvial gravelly-gravel deposits of the outwash cones. Alluvial gravels of the terraces are covered with a thin (0.5-0.8) m layer of brown silt.
Relationships and Distribution
Lower contact
On the other hand, they adjoin the deposits of the modern Golodnostepsky Gr.
Upper contact
Modern surface.
Regional extent
It is widespread in the basin of the Syrdarya River in the Karamazar and South Fergana districts, as well as in the northern part of the Turkestan district.
GeoJSON
Fossils
Age
Depositional setting
Additional Information
In the deposits of the Kayrakkum terrace, belonging to the Syrdarya complex, A.P. Okladnikov (1958) discovered monuments of the Bronze and Iron Age.