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The exhumation of the western Greater Caucasus: a thermochronometric study [PDF]

Geological Magazine, 2010
AbstractThis study provides 39 new thermochronometric analyses from the western part of the Greater Caucasus, a region in which existing data are extremely limited and of questionable quality. The new results are consistent with field studies that identify Triassic to Middle Jurassic (Cimmerian) and Oligo-Miocene (Alpine) orogenic erosional events.
STEPHEN J. VINCENT, ANDREW CARTER, VLADIMIR A. LAVRISHCHEV, SAMUEL P. RICE, TEIMURAZ G. BARABADZE, NIELS HOVIUS   +5 more
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Dispersed Geoheritage Points of the Lagonaki Highland, SW Russia: Contribution to Local Geoheritage Resource

Geosciences, 2019
Dispersed geoheritage points, which are small-sized and low-unique localities, manifest local geoheritage and, thus, may be useful for its comprehensive understanding.
Dmitry A. Ruban, Svetlana O. Zorina, Maksim B. Rebezov   +2 more
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The evolution of the western view on Russian orientalism in the North Caucasus: the key features

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования
Introduction. The problems of the processes of Russian Orientalism formation in the North Caucasus in the XIX century is an urgent topic for modern historical science.
R. I. Pliev
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Life strategies and the long-term climate-driven dynamics of the endemic Caucasian plant Fritillaria latifolia Willd.

Учёные записки Казанского университета: Серия Естественные науки, 2019
The rare endemic plant Fritillaria latifolia Willd. growing in subalpine meadows of the Western and Central Caucasus has the SR life strategy of life.
R.H. Pshegusov, V.A. Chadaeva, I.V. Taniya, L.M. Abramova, A.N. Mustafina   +4 more
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Amulets and charms of the peoples of the Northwestern Caucasus in the Russian Museum of Eth-nography collection

Кавказология, 2023
The article examines objects from the Russian Ethnographic Museum’s collection, the primary purposes of which are protective. The collection of things with defensive or protective properties dates back to the first museum excursions to the Caucasus and ...
Ritsa Sh. Zelnitskaya
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Jadeite of the Bedene serpentinite massif, Western Caucasus

Новые данные о минералах, 2021
В работе представлены новые данные о находках жадеита на Западном Кавказе. Проведены микроскопические и микрозондовые исследования образцов жадеита из Беденского массива серпентинитов. Показано, что минерал содержит до 93% жадеитовой молекулы. Рассматрено геологическое положение массива серпентинитов, генезис и термодинамическая устойчивость жадеита в ...
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Turkish policy in the South Caucasus

Проблемы постсоветского пространства, 2018
The South Caucasus region traditionally has an important role to play in global politics. This region for centuries has been an arena of confrontation for geopolitical and geostrategic interests between regional states and world powers; this affected the
M. S. Suvanova
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Notes on the name Lethrotrypes Jacobson, 1892 and taxonomic status of Parathorectes pueblai López-Colón et Bahillo De la Puebla, 2022 (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae) [PDF]

Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень
History of usage of the name Lethrotrypes Jacobson, 1892 is discussed. New synonyms are established: Lethrotrypes Jacobson, 1892 = Parathorectes López-Colón et Bahillo De la Puebla, 2022, syn. n., Trypocopris (Lethrotrypes) inermis (Ménétriés, 1832) =
I.V. Shokhin, M.Yu. Kalashian, T.L. Ghrejyan   +2 more
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New findings of ichnofossils in the Bagovskaya formation (Lower Jurassic) of the Western Caucasus

Известия высших учебных заведений: Геология и разведка, 2015
An ichnofossil association is established in the shales of the Bagovskaya Formation (Lower-Middle Toarcian, Lower Jurassic) in the southern periphery of the town of Guzeripl’ (Republic of Adygeya).
P. P. Zayats, O. V. Nazarenko, D. A. Ruban   +2 more
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Review of the genus Caucaseuma Strasser, 1970, with the description of a new cavernicolous species from the Western Caucasus and an updated key and distribution (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Anthroleucosomatidae)

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2022
A new species of the genus Caucaseuma Strasser, 1970, Caucaseuma strasseri Antić sp. nov., is described from a cave in the Western Caucasus, representing the eighth species of the genus, and the fourth presumed troglobiontic Caucaseuma.
Dragan Antić, Slobodan Makarov
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