Gzhelian
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The Gzhelian ( ) is an age in the ICS geologic time scale or a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest stage of the Pennsylvanian, the youngest subsystem of the Carboniferous. The Gzhelian lasted from to Ma. It follows the Kasimovian age/stage and is followed by the Asselian age/stage, the oldest subdivision of the Permian system.
Key facts
- Geologic timespan.name
- Gzhelian
- Geologic timespan.color
- Gzhelian
- Geologic timespan.time_start
- 303.7
- Geologic timespan.time_start_uncertainty
- 0.1
- Geologic timespan.time_end
- 298.9
- Geologic timespan.time_end_uncertainty
- 0.15
- Geologic timespan.image_map
- Стратотип каменноугольной системы (Гжельский ярус) 6.jpg
- Geologic timespan.caption_map
- Type locality for the Gzhelian in Gzhel, Russia
- Geologic timespan.timeline
- Carboniferous
- Geologic timespan.name_formality
- Formal
- Geologic timespan.celestial_body
- earth
- Geologic timespan.usage
- Global (ICS)
- Geologic timespan.timescales_used
- ICS Time Scale
- Geologic timespan.chrono_unit
- Age
- Geologic timespan.strat_unit
- Stage
- Geologic timespan.type_section
- Gzhel horizon, Gzhel, Moscow Oblast, Russia
- Geologic timespan.timespan_formality
- Formal
- Geologic timespan.lower_boundary_def
- Not formally defined
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Gzhelian ( ) is an age in the ICS geologic time scale or a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest stage of the Pennsylvanian, the youngest subsystem of the Carboniferous. The Gzhelian lasted from to Ma. It follows the Kasimovian age/stage and is followed by the Asselian age/stage, the oldest subdivision of the Permian system.
The Gzhelian is more or less coeval with the Stephanian Stage of the regional stratigraphy of Europe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gzhelian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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