2019
DOI: 10.4236/ojg.2019.93014
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Karst Relief Development History of Zemo Imereti Plateau, Georgia, Caucasus

Abstract: The history of karst terrestrial development has been restored on the background of many years' field, experimental and laboratory researches (underground water tracing, structural deciphering of aerophotocytes, analysis of boreholes and geological wounds) and analysis of the current literary sources carried out by us in the Zemo Imereti Plateau. Within the study area, karst and karst forms of the Jurassic-Cretaceous, Lower Tertiary (Paleocene-Eocene) and Post-Miocene (Sarmati) period were revealed. Lithobiost… Show more

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“…Molecularly, specimens from this cave represent unique species; however, it is located in the same karst area as Kozmani Cave-Zemo-Imereti Plateau. Geography was considered a reliable delimitation tool in Onychiuridae (Sun et al 2017), but the in the case of such a complex karst area as Zemo-Imereti, particular structural plateaus have a different geological history (Lezhava et al 2019;Tielidze et al 2019), which may have a decisive impact on the isolation of subterranean populations within this area and the evolution of independent phyletic lineages of Deuteraphorura. Morphologically, specimens from Shvilobisa Cave are similar to those from the geologically similar Sataplia-Tskaltubo karst area.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Molecularly, specimens from this cave represent unique species; however, it is located in the same karst area as Kozmani Cave-Zemo-Imereti Plateau. Geography was considered a reliable delimitation tool in Onychiuridae (Sun et al 2017), but the in the case of such a complex karst area as Zemo-Imereti, particular structural plateaus have a different geological history (Lezhava et al 2019;Tielidze et al 2019), which may have a decisive impact on the isolation of subterranean populations within this area and the evolution of independent phyletic lineages of Deuteraphorura. Morphologically, specimens from Shvilobisa Cave are similar to those from the geologically similar Sataplia-Tskaltubo karst area.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Karst landscapes are particularly well represented in western Georgia [2]. The Zemo Imereti Structural Plateau comprises the easternmost part of the western Georgia's limestone belt [5] [6] [7] [8], characterized by peculiar natural conditions (kastified terrain, tectonics, climate, surfacewaters and underground waters) and is the only region of platform karst in the Caucasus, where a variety of surface and underground karst landscapes are represented [9] [10] [11] [12].…”
Section: Study Areamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This strip is located on the border between the southern slope of the Caucasus folded system and the Block of Georgia. Important massifs of Askhi, Khvamrli, Zemo Imereti, Racha, Migaria, and others are represented exactly in the mentioned karst strip (Lezhava et al, 2015;2019c;Asanidze et al, 2017b;Asanidze et al, 2017c).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%