Permian (298.90 +/-0.15 Ma)
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- 5 / 75 / 75 / 0 (Commission for the Geological Map of the World)
- Color RGB
- R: 240 G: 64 B: 40
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Period
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid formal name
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Perm
- Français
- Permien
- Italiano
- Permiano
- English
- Permian (298.90 +/-0.15 Ma)
- Origin of the Name
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Named after the former Perm Governorate (Russia).
- Historical Variants
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5e Etage = Permien (Greppin 1866), Perm, Permico (Pozzi 1959)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Geography
- Type area
- Ural Mountains
Material and varia
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Lopingian (259.51 +/-0.21 Ma)
- Name Origin
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Named after the town of Leping = Loping (Jiangxi Province, China).
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Epoch
- Status
- valid formal name
- Age
- Wuchiapingian
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Guadalupian (273.01 +/-0.14 Ma)
- Name Origin
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Named after the Guadalupe Mountains (Texas, USA).
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Epoch
- Status
- valid formal name
- Age
- Roadian
-
Capitanian (264.28 +/-0.16 Ma)
- Name Origin
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Named after the Capitan Reef in the Guadalupe Mountains (Texas, USA).
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Stage
- Status
- valid formal name
- Age
- Capitanian
-
Wordian (266.9 +/-0.4 Ma)
- Name Origin
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Named after the Word Formation (Word Ranch, Glass Mountains) of the North American Permian Basin.
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Stage
- Status
- valid formal name
- Age
- Wordien
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Roadian (273.01 +/-0.14 Ma)
- Name Origin
-
Named after the Road Canyon Member of the Word Formation (Texas, USA).
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Stage
- Status
- valid formal name
- Age
- Roadian
-
Cisuralian (298.9 +/-0.15 Ma)
- Name Origin
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Named after the Cisural Mountains (western, European part of the Ural Mountains).
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Epoch
- Status
- valid formal name
- Age
- Asselian
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Kungurian (283.5 +/-0.6 Ma)
- Name Origin
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Named after the town of Kungur (Russia), near Perm.
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Stage
- Status
- valid formal name
- Age
- Kungurian
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Artinskian (290.1 +/-0.26 Ma)
- Name Origin
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Named after the town of Artinsk = Arti (Russia), S Perm.
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Stage
- Status
- valid formal name
- In short
-
Stage of the Early Permian.
- Age
- Artinskien
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Sakmarian (293.52 +/-0.17 Ma)
- Name Origin
-
Named after the Sakmara River (Russia).
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Stage
- Status
- valid formal name
- Age
- Sakmarien
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Asselian (298.9 +/-0.15 Ma)
- Name Origin
-
Named after the Assel River, southern Ural Mountains (Kazakhstan / Bashkortostan).
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Stage
- Status
- valid formal name
- In short
-
First stage of the Cisuralian and hence base of the Permian.
- Age
- Asselian