Jurassic

Rock type: 
Age: 
163 millions years

Russia, Caucasus, Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Gumbashi pass. Limestones, sandy limestones, dolomitic limestones, dolostones, marl interbeds. Gerpegemskaya series. Fossil: Quenstedtoceras cf. brasili Douv., Perisphinctes sp., "Rhynchonella" spatica Douv., Zeilleria balkarensis Moiss., Z adygensis Moiss., Radulopecten subinaequicostatus Kas., R fibrosodichotomus Kas., Trigonia planulata Ag., Chlamys viminea Sow., Avicula argoviensis Moesch., Lima malkensus Pcel., Aviculoperna caucasica Pcel., Kosmoceras dagestanicum Kas., Lima duplicata Sow., Loboidothyris zeiteni Lor., Rhactorhynchia aff.

Rock type: 
Age: 
163 millions years

Russia, Caucasus, Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Gumbashi pass. Limestones, sandy limestones, dolomitic limestones, dolostones, marl interbeds. Gerpegemskaya series. Fossil: Quenstedtoceras cf. brasili Douv., Perisphinctes sp., "Rhynchonella" spatica Douv., Zeilleria balkarensis Moiss., Z adygensis Moiss., Radulopecten subinaequicostatus Kas., R fibrosodichotomus Kas., Trigonia planulata Ag., Chlamys viminea Sow., Avicula argoviensis Moesch., Lima malkensus Pcel., Aviculoperna caucasica Pcel., Kosmoceras dagestanicum Kas., Lima duplicata Sow., Loboidothyris zeiteni Lor., Rhactorhynchia aff.

Rock type: 
Age: 
163 millions years

Russia, Caucasus, Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Gumbashi pass. Limestones, sandy limestones, dolomitic limestones, dolostones, marl interbeds. Gerpegemskaya series. Fossil: Quenstedtoceras cf. brasili Douv., Perisphinctes sp., "Rhynchonella" spatica Douv., Zeilleria balkarensis Moiss., Z adygensis Moiss., Radulopecten subinaequicostatus Kas., R fibrosodichotomus Kas., Trigonia planulata Ag., Chlamys viminea Sow., Avicula argoviensis Moesch., Lima malkensus Pcel., Aviculoperna caucasica Pcel., Kosmoceras dagestanicum Kas., Lima duplicata Sow., Loboidothyris zeiteni Lor., Rhactorhynchia aff.

Rock type: 
Age: 
194 millions years

Russia, Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Harbas river valley. Quartz sandstones, with intercalations of siltstones and mudstones. At the base - coal layers. A coal seam is visible in the photo. Khumarrinskaya series. Thickness 240 meters. Fossil: Velopecten rollei Tate, Lima punctataSow., Circostylus euomphalus Quenst., Leda (Dacryomya) cf. graphica Tate, Astrate subtetragona Munst., Parallelodon aff. similis Terq., Hinnites sp. ind. (cf. davoei Dam.), Nucula cf. palmae Sow. Lower Jurassic. Sinemurian.

Rock type: 
Age: 
194 millions years

Russia, Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Harbas river valley. Quartz sandstones, with intercalations of siltstones and mudstones. At the base - coal layers. Khumarrinskaya series. Thickness 240 meters. Fossil: Velopecten rollei Tate, Lima punctataSow., Circostylus euomphalus Quenst., Leda (Dacryomya) cf. graphica Tate, Astrate subtetragona Munst., Parallelodon aff. similis Terq., Hinnites sp. ind. (cf. davoei Dam.), Nucula cf. palmae Sow. Lower Jurassic. Sinemurian.

In the second photo, at the bottom of the cliff - granites. Malinskiy granite complex. Carboniferous.

Rock type: 
Age: 
184 millions years

Russia, Caucasus, Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Khasaut River Valley. Light gray quartz and polymictic sandstones, with mudstones, siltstones and interbeds of coal. Fossil: Velopecten rollei Tate, Lima punctata Sow., Circostylus euomphalus Quenst., Leda (Dacryomya) cf. graphica Tate, Astarte subtetragona Minst., Parallelodon aff. similis Terq., Hinnites sp. ind. (cf. davoei  Dam),  Nucula cf. palmae Sow. Lower Jurassic. Pliensbachian.