Sedimentary

Rock type: 
Age: 
540 millions years

Russia, Republic of Sakha, Aldan river valley. Tiled, gray, greenish-gray dolostones with intercalations of clay and oolithic dolostones. Saturated with mineralized cylindrical burrows (diameter up to 1 centimeter) of worms (planolites and skolitos). Neoproterozoic - Cambrian.

Rock type: 
Age: 
1200 millions years

Russia, Republic of Buryatia, Taksimo. Brownish-lilac and greenish large-pebble conglomerates with interbeds of sandstones. Pebbles and boulders in conglomerates up to 80 centimeters in size. Formed by sandstones, shales, granites and various effusive rocks. Sandy cement is metamorphosed to a saussurite-sericite aggregate, with feldspars, quartz, epidote and iron hydroxides. The interlayers of sandstones are green, greenish-gray, polymictic and quartz. Polymictic sandstones are formed by quartz, plagioclase and potassium feldspar. Mukhtunnaya series. Thickness 1300 meters.

Rock type: 
Age: 
100 millions years
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Turkey, Caunos Tombs of the Kings. Pelagic limestones. Cretaceous.

Rock type: 
Age: 
150 millions years

Turkey, Fethie. Middle Triassic - Cretaceous limestones. Lycian tombs taxied in limestone. 4th century BC.

Rock type: 
Age: 
140 millions years

Turkey, Tersane Adasi. Pelagic limestones. Middle Jurassic-Cretaceous.

Rock type: 
Age: 
140 millions years

Turkey, Tersane Adasi. Pelagic limestones. Middle Jurassic-Cretaceous.

Rock type: 
Age: 
140 millions years

Turkey, Tersane Adasi. Pelagic limestones. Middle Jurassic-Cretaceous.

Rock type: 
Age: 
140 millions years

Turkey, Tersane Adasi. Pelagic limestones. Middle Jurassic-Cretaceous.

Rock type: 
Age: 
100 millions years

Turkey, Mount Babadag. Pelagic limestones. Cretaceous.

Rock type: 
Age: 
119 millions years

Russia, Caucasus, Stavropol Territory, Kislovodsk. Yellowish-gray fine-grained massive glauconite-quartz sandstones. Contains cohesions of calcareous sandstones and rare nest-clad leafy mudstones. Shagirtskaya series. Thickness - 25 meters. Fossil: Dufrenoya furcata Kaz., Cheloniceras seminodosum Sing., Deshayesites deshyi Papp., Panope gurgitis Bron., P. akuschaensis Mordv., Thetironia minor Sow., Dosinimeria para Sow., Deshayesites weissi Neut. et Uhl., Cheloniceras seminodosum Sing., Barbatia apptiensis Pict. et Camp., Colombiceras tobleri Jac. et Tobl., C.