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Precambrian stratigraphic scale of the USSR

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

B. M. Keller
B. M. Keller
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Geological Institute of the AN SSSR, Pyzhevskiy Pereulok Dom 7, Moscow ZH-17, USSR
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Summary

A new stratigraphic scale of the USSR Precambrian officially adopted by the All-Union Precambrian Meeting in Ufa (1977) and approved by the National Stratigraphic Committee (1978) is discussed. Archean and Proterozoic have been distinguished in the Precambrian, the boundary between being 2600 Ma. Proterozoic is subdivided into the Lower- and Upper-Proterozoic with the boundary between them 1650 Ma. Riphean and Vendian are distinguished in the Upper Proterozoic. More detailed subdivisions of the Upper Proterozoic are Burzyanian, Yurmatian, Karatavian, Kudashian and Vendian. Lithological and palaeontological characteristics of these subdivisions and their radiometric age are given.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 116 , Issue 6 , November 1979 , pp. 419 - 429
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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