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Testing Models of Cenozoic Exhumation in the Western Greater Caucasus [PDF]

open access: yesTectonics, 2020
AbstractThe Greater Caucasus form the northernmost deformation front of the Arabia‐Eurasia collision zone. Earlier thermochronometric studies on the crystalline core of the western Greater Caucasus highlighted an abrupt along‐strike increase in cooling ages to the west of Mt. Elbrus.
Vincent, Stephen J.   +5 more
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Scopaeus chalcodactylus Kolenati, 1846 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), a new species of rove beetles for the fauna of Russia [PDF]

open access: yesКавказский 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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Total Shortening Estimates Across the Western Greater Caucasus Mountains from Balanced Cross Sections and Area Balancing

open access: yesTektonika, 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]

open access: yesGeološki 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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Winters of avalanche maximum in the Greater Caucasus for the period of instrumental observations (1968–2016)

open access: yesЛëд 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
doaj   +1 more source

Geothermal field of the transition area between the Anatolian Plate and the East European Platform

open access: yesЖурнал 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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The genetic prehistory of the Greater Caucasus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Abstract Archaeogenetic studies have described the formation of Eurasian ‘steppe ancestry’ as a mixture of Eastern and Caucasus hunter-gatherers. However, it remains unclear when and where this ancestry arose and whether it was related to a horizon of cultural innovations in the 4 th
Chuan-Chao Wang   +45 more
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The deep structure of the Greater Caucasus on the basis of geophysical data according to new technologies. 1. Gravimetry, magnetometry, local seismic tomography and micro seismic sounding

open access: yesГеофизический журнал, 2016
The data of gravity prospecting, magnetic prospecting and seismology for the study of deep structure of the earth crust of the Greater Caucasus according to software technologies have been processed and interpreted.
S. A. Ghonghadze
doaj   +1 more source

Colias aurorina lauta ssp. n. (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) – a new subspecies from the central part of the Greater Caucasus [PDF]

open access: yesКавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2010
The new subspecies of the sulphur Colias aurorina (Herrich-Schäffer), [1851] from the Greater Caucasus is desсribed. The details of species distribution in the Caucasus and the main morphological features of specimens from different Caucasian populations
D.V. Morgun
doaj   +1 more source

Large Igneous Province Record Through Time and Implications for Secular Environmental Changes and Geological Time‐Scale Boundaries

open access: yesGeophysical Monograph Series, Page 1-26., 2021

Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact

An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Richard E. Ernst   +8 more
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