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The famennian-lower carboniferous reference section Geran-Kalasi (Nakhichevan Autonomous Region, Azerbaijan)

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One of the most complete sections of the Upper Devonian-Lower Carboniferous in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Region in Azerbaijan is described bed-by-bed. The section is located on the northeastern slope of Geran-Kalasi Mountain. The section features a continuous succession of marine beds and abundant fossils, including foraminiferans, bryozoans, tabulates, rugoses, brachiopods, ostracodes, crinoids, conodonts, and algae. A few ammonoids found in the section have not yet been identified. In the process of composing the 1:25000 scale geological map, a complex brachiopod zone is for the first time accepted as a major stratigraphic unit (indicating the stratotype and an assemblage of zonal brachiopod species).

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Original Russian Text © I.A. Grechishnikova, E.S. Levitskii, 2011, published in Stratigrafiya. Geologicheskaya Korrelyatsiya, 2011, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 24–46.

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Grechishnikova, I.A., Levitskii, E.S. The famennian-lower carboniferous reference section Geran-Kalasi (Nakhichevan Autonomous Region, Azerbaijan). Stratigr. Geol. Correl. 19, 21–43 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593811010035

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