Sandstone

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.

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.

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.

Rock type: 
Age: 
127 millions years

Russia, Caucasus, Stavropol Territory, Kislovodsk. Ferruginous, red, brown, calcareous sandstones. The layer at the base of the Kichmalkinskoy series. Thickness - 10 meters. Fossil: Saynella cf. suessi Simion., Matheronites soulieri Math., Euphylloceras ponticuli Rouss., Phyllopachyceras infundibulum Orb., Leptoceras diplex Koen., Colchidites ellipticus Rouch., Heteroceras astieri Orb., H. obliguatum Orb., Imerites densecostatus Renng., Barbatia aptiensis Pict. et Camp., Panopaea zeichi Maas., Solarium subornatum Pcel., Pleurotomaria aff. daghestanica Anth., Heteraster cf. couloni Agass.

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: 
135 millions years

Russia, Stavropol Territory, canyon of the river Dry Olkhovka. Limestones, limestones sandstones, oolitic limestones, interlayers of marls. Fossil: Thurmanniceras cf. thurmanni Pict., Phasianela personi Chaff., Purpuroidea longa Pcel., Grammatodon cabadinensis Mordv. Lower Cretaceous. Valanginian

Rock type: 
Age: 
135 millions years

Russia, Stavropol Territory, canyon of the river Olkhovka. Limestones, limestones sandstones, oolitic limestones, interlayers of marls. Fossil: Thurmanniceras cf. thurmanni Pict., Phasianela personi Chaff., Purpuroidea longa Pcel., Grammatodon cabadinensis Mordv. Lower Cretaceous. Valanginian

Rock type: 
Age: 
135 millions years

Russia, Stavropol Territory, canyon of the river Olkhovka. Limestones, limestones sandstones, oolitic limestones, interlayers of marls. Fossil: Thurmanniceras cf. thurmanni Pict., Phasianela personi Chaff., Purpuroidea longa Pcel., Grammatodon cabadinensis Mordv. Lower Cretaceous. Valanginian

Rock type: 
Age: 
135 millions years

Russia, Stavropol Territory, canyon of the river Dry Olkhovka. Limestones, limestones sandstones, oolitic limestones, interlayers of marls. Fossil: Thurmanniceras cf. thurmanni Pict., Phasianela personi Chaff., Purpuroidea longa Pcel., Grammatodon cabadinensis Mordv. Lower Cretaceous. Valanginian