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Fig.6 Stratigraphic summary (Miocene-Holocene). Chronostratigraphy after Beard e¢ al. (1982) and Lamb et al. (1987) (conceptual Gulf of 
Mexico deep-water stage nomenclature) (Wis. = Wisconsinian; San. = Sangamonian; Ill. = Illinoisian; Yar. = Yarmouthian; Kan. = Kansan; Aft. = 
Aftonian; Neb. = Nebraskan). Biostratigraphy after Blow (1969) (planktonic foraminifera) (prefixed N) and Martini (1971) (calcareous nanno- 
plankton) (prefixed NN). Magnetostratigraphic polarity epochs and absolute age values are after Haq er al. (1988). Regional stratigraphy from this 
paper (upper case = chronostratigraphic, lower case = lithostratigraphic units). Regional sequence stratigraphy (transgressions) after Skalbdyna 
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(1985). Global sequence stratigraphy after Haq er al. (1988) (third-order cycles TB3.2-TB3.8), and Beard er al. (1982) and Lamb et al. (1987) 
(fourth-order cycles Q2-Q8). Sequence boundary and maximum flooding surface ages in Ma. Climatostratigraphy (superclimathems or SCTs) 
after Zubakov & Borzenkova (1990). The correlation of Eastern Paratethyan sequence stratigraphy with the global coastal onlap curve of Haq et 
al. (1988) is tentative. The extent of biostratigraphic control constraining the correlation is indicated on Fig. 5. 
recorded the planktonic foraminifer Globigerina 
officinalis (Middle Eocene to Oligocene, Zones P14—P22 of 
Blow, 1969) from the basal ‘Planorbella Horizow in Azerbaijan. 
recorded planktonic foraminifera 
indicative of Early Oligocene (P18) from a stratigraphically 
similar position (immediately below the ‘Ostracod-Horizon’) in 
the Kuban-Kuma Interfluve (North Caucasus). Krasheninnikov 
et al. (1985) recorded Globigerina tapuriensis (Oligocene, 
P18—P20) associated with the larger benthonic foraminifer 
Nummulites intermedius (Early Oligocene) from the Khadumian 
of Armenia. Later, Krasheninnikoy & Ptukhian (1986) recorded 
Globigerina sellii (Oligocene, P19/20 to ‘early’ P22) associated 
with Nummulites intermedius (also Oligocene) and the 
calcareous nannofossil Helicosphaera reticulata (Eocene to 
Early Oligocene, Zones NP17—NP22 of Martini, 1971) from the 
Khadumian of Armenia. Koshkarly (1986) recorded the 
calcareous nannofossils Reticulofenestra umbilica (Eocene to 
Early Oligocene, NP16—-NP22), Chiasmolithus oamaruensis 
(Eocene to Early Oligocene, NP18—NP22), Isthmolithus recurvus 
(Eocene to Early Oligocene, NP19-NP22), Sphenolithus 
pseudoradians (Eocene to Early Oligocene, NP20—NP23) and 
Ericsonia subdisticha (Eocene to Early Oligocene, NP20—NP21) 
from the Khadumian of Azerbaijan. Later, Koshkarly & 
Baldi—Beke (1987) recorded R. umbilica, C. oamaruensis, I. 
recurvus and S. pseudoradians, and Koshkarly & Alekperov 
(1993) H. reticulata and E. subdisticha from the Early 
Maykopian of Azerbaijan. 
Palynology. Although only non-age-diagnostic palynomorphs 
were recorded from the Maykopian of the Middle Kura 
Depression by Dzhabarova (1973), recent observations suggest 
that some age-diagnostic dinocysts, and pollen and spores do 
