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Kungurian Stage, last of the four stages of the Lower Permian (Cisuralian) Series, encompassing all rocks deposited during the Kungurian Age (279.3 million to 272.3 million years ago) of the Permian Period. Rock exposures from this stage are well developed in the Ural region in both Kazakhstan and Russia. In the Mughalzhar Hills (Kazakhstan) and southern Ural mountain regions (Russia), Kungurian deposits are primarily terrigenous (formed by erosion), consisting of red beds and lagoonal sediment types. Many different kinds of shallow marginal marine, evaporitic, and nonmarine strata were deposited here as lateral sedimentary facies to one another. Elsewhere, conglomerates, sandstones, ...(100 of 246 words)

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