Carpathian
The Karpatian (also Carpathian level or Karpatien) is a regional chronostratigraphic level of the Miocene ( Neogene ), which is used in the central Paratethys area. It corresponds approximately to the upper third of the international chronostratigraphic level of the Burdigalium . The Carpathian is to be placed in the period from 17 to 16 million years. In the central Paratethys, the regional level of the Carpathian is followed by the regional level of the Badenium ; it is underlain by the Ottnangium .
Naming and stratotype
The stage is named after the Carpathian Mountains . The stratotype profile is from Slup ( Moravia , Czech Republic ). The step was proposed in 1967 by Czech geologists Ivan Cicha, Ján Seneš and Jiří Tejkal. It found and is almost universally used in the Paratethys field.
definition
The lower limit of the regional level of the Carpathian is defined by the end of the so-called Rzehakia layers. The upper limit is marked by the first appearance of the orbulins . So it coincides with the Burdigalium - Langhium limit. The level corresponds approximately to the upper third of the Burdigalium level.
literature
- Ivan Cicha, Ján Seneš and Jiří Tejkal: Chronostratigraphy and Neostratotypes Miocene of the central Paratethys. Volume IM 3 (Carpathian) The Carpathian series and its stratotype. 312 pp., Bratislava 1967