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The Pliocene-Pleistocene marine sediments of the Great Caspian region host various lithological fossil facies, which reflect specific sedimentation conditions caused by different structural-geomorphologic settings, tectonic regimes, climates, and hydrologies. The facies of shelf, epicontinental basins, ingression gulfs and estuaries, intermontane and mountainous basins, and deep-sea depressions form a hierarchy of geological bodies from types to subtypes. Paragenetic associations of fossil facies, which form various series in space and along the section, are typical of marine sediments.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Svitoch, 2015, published in Okeanologiya, 2015, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 404–415.
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Svitoch, A.A. Fossil facies of the Greater Caspian region. Oceanology 55, 364–373 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437015030169
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