Winters of avalanche maximum in the Greater Caucasus for the period of instrumental observations (1968–2016) [PDF]
Лëд и снег, 2020 This investigation has been carried out to identify winters with the maximum frequency of avalanches in the Greater Caucasus. The analysis was performed for decades and for the entire period of instrumental observations (1968–2016).
A. D. Oleinikov, N. A. Volodicheva
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Orobanche ingens (Orobanchaceae) – a poorly known species of the Greater Caucasus: taxonomic problems, distribution, hosts and habitats [PDF]
PhytoKeys, 2022 Orobanche ingens is an endemic species from the Caucasus, especially the Greater Caucasus, parasitising on large Apiaceae (usually Heracleum). This species was misclassified over the years and little was known about its range and habitats.
Renata Piwowarczyk +3 more
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The First Rock Glacier Inventory for the Greater Caucasus
Geosciences, 2023 Rock glaciers are an integral part of the periglacial environment. At the regional scale in the Greater Caucasus, there have been no comprehensive systematic efforts to assess the distribution of rock glaciers, although some individual parts of ranges ...
Levan G. Tielidze +3 more
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The Greater Caucasus Glacier Inventory (Russia, Georgia and Azerbaijan) [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2018 There have been numerous studies of glaciers in the Greater Caucasus, but none that have generated a modern glacier database across the whole mountain range. Here, we present an updated and expanded glacier inventory at three time periods (1960, 1986,
L. G. Tielidze +2 more
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A 2025 High-Resolution Glacier Inventory of the Greater Caucasus Reveals Accelerated Area Loss
Remote SensingThe Greater Caucasus is one of the most extensively glacierized mountain systems in mid-latitude Eurasia and has experienced substantial glacier retreat in recent decades.
Levan G. Tielidze +7 more
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A new species of Dysdera Latreille, 1804 (Aranei: Dysderidae) from South Ossetia, the Greater Caucasus [PDF]
Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2023 A new species, Dysdera bakhanovi sp. n., is described from South Ossetia based on a male specimen. The new species is closely related to the Pontic-Caspian D. dunini Deeleman-Reinhold, 1988, the Anatolian D. anatoliae DeelemanReinhold, 1988 and D. krisis
A.A. Fomichev
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Scopaeus chalcodactylus Kolenati, 1846 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), a new species of rove beetles for the fauna of Russia [PDF]
Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2014 The rove beetle Scopaeus chalcodactylus (Kolenati, 1846) is for the first time recorded for the territory of the North Caucasus (Kabardino-Balkarian Republic), this finding moreover constitutes the first record of the species for the Greater Caucasus and
A.A. Aiydov, J. Frisch
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Tektonika, 2023 The Greater Caucasus orogen forms the northern edge of the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone. Although the orogen has long been assumed to exhibit dominantly thick-skinned style deformation via reactivation of high-angle extensional faults, recent work ...
Charles Trexler +3 more
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The palaeogeographic outlines of the Caucasus in the Jurassic: The Caucasian Sea and the Neotethys Ocean [PDF]
Geološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva, 2006 The Caucasian Sea, fringing the northern margin of the Jurassic Neotethys Ocean, largely covered the Caucasus. Continental, shallow-marine and deep-marine palaeoenvironments delineate palaeogeographic outlines for three significant time slices: the Late ...
Ruban Dmitry A.
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Geothermal field of the transition area between the Anatolian Plate and the East European Platform
Журнал Белорусского государственного университета: География, геология, 2019 Heat flow data from the Eastern Mediterranean region indicates an extensive province of low heat flow, spreading over the whole basin of the Mediterranean to the east of Crete (Levantine Sea), Cyprus, and Northern Egypt.
Siamak Mansouri Far
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