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Stratigraphy of the Shiskat Paleozoic reference section (Southern Tien-Shan, Central Tajikistan)

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Based on extremely detailed litho- and biostratigraphic analyses it has been possible to recognise 9 formations, 62 conodont, 13 foraminifera and 17 tentaculite biostratigraphic zones in the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous carbonate sequence of the Shiskat reference section. The lithological and paleontological characteristics of the formations are described in detail. The sedimentary environment of the Shishkat area of the Zeravshan-Turkestan Paleobasin is reconstructed and a special Shiskat facies type of Paleozoic section of the Zeravshan-Turkestan structure-facies zone is proposed.

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  1. Institut of Geology, Academy of Sciences, Republic of Tajikistan, Naberezhnaya st. 14, 734003, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

    Igor A. Bardashev & Nina P. Bardasheva

  2. Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Karsten Weddige & Willi Ziegler

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Bardashev, I.A., Bardasheva, N.P., Weddige, K. et al. Stratigraphy of the Shiskat Paleozoic reference section (Southern Tien-Shan, Central Tajikistan). Senckenbergiana Lethaea 86, 289–319 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03043496

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