№ 3,
2010
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Stage subdivision of sumgait suite and govundag series of South-East Caucasus
Institute of Geology and Geophysics of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, AZ1143, Baku, H.Javid av., 119
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Sumgait suite is subdivided into Zeland and Thanetian stages of Paleocene, and Govundag series – into Ypresian, Lutetian, Paradashian and Priabonian stages of Eocene. It is not efficiently to use Bartonian stage which covers the Upper part of Lutetian stage, Paradashian stage of the Middle Eocene and all Upper Eocene, it reaches the Lower Oligocene, has no nummulites, plankton foraminifera, nanno-plankton, etc. The zone Globigerapsis semiinvoluta jointly with N.millecaput tops Paradashian stage, doesn’t enter the zone fabianii, underlies it. Sumgait suite and Govundag series for the first time are correlated with the same age suits of the South Caucasus.