Temporal outline of geological heritage sites in the Western Caucasus

Ruban, Dmitry A.; Mikhailenko, Anna V.; Ermolaev, Vladimir A.

doi:10.1016/j.ijgeop.2024.05.001

International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks

2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgeop.2024.05.001

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Temporal outline of geological heritage sites in the Western Caucasus

Dmitry A. Ruban,

Anna V. Mikhailenko,

Vladimir A. Ermolaev

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Geosites of Northern Mountainous Adygeya (Southwestern Russia): A Novel Vision

Mikhailenko,

Ruban

2024

Geosciences

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Territorial inventories of geosites remain on the international agenda, and they can help in acquiring information for solving pure geological research tasks. New field investigations in the northern part of Mountainous Adygeya (geoheritage-rich territory in the western Greater Caucasus) permitted us to extend our knowledge of its geosites. Five geosites were described qualitatively and assessed semi-quantitatively, namely the Polkovnitskaya River Valley (ammonite-bearing concretions of Aptian glauconitic sandstones), the Little Khadzhokh River Valley (Aptian glauconitic sandstones with fossils and trace fossils), the Shakhan and Middle Khadzhokh River Valley (Upper Jurassic variegated siliciclastics, Hauterivian fluvial and deltaic sandstones, mixed ancient and modern clastic material), the Big Khadzhoh Waterfall (splendid waterfall and exposures of locally folded Oxfordian–Kimmeridgian limestones), and the Verblyud Mountain (small, camel-shaped cuesta’s remnant). They were ranked nationally (one geosite), regionally (three geosites), and locally (one geosite). Close examination of the considered geosites permitted to register pure geological peculiarities (changes in the dip direction between sedimentary packages), which indicate the tectonic activity across the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition. Additionally, complex accessibility patterns were established in some geosites, and these patterns should be addressed in further refinements of the semi-quantitative approaches to geosite assessment.

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Geosites of Northern Mountainous Adygeya (Southwestern Russia): A Novel Vision

Mikhailenko,

Ruban

2024

Geosciences

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Exposure of Carboniferous Granitoids on Triassic–Jurassic Seashores in the Western Caucasus: A Stratigraphical Review

Ruban

2024

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Granitoids are known to crop out on ancient seashores, but the related geological evidence remains limited. The information from the Western Caucasus sheds light on the stratigraphical distribution of coarse siliciclastic beds associated with late Carboniferous granitoids of the Dakh, Rafabgo, and Sakhray crystalline massifs. For the purposes of this study, the available information was reviewed and verified against the modern stratigraphical scales. It is established that the considered coarse sisliciclastic beds occur at five stratigraphical levels of the Triassic–Jurassic succession. A rocky seashore with granitoid exposures existed for a short time around the Sakhray and probably Rufabgo massifs at the very beginning of the Triassic. The Dakh Massif possessed such a shore twice (at least), i.e., in the Norian–Rhaetian and the Early Toarcian. However, it cannot be excluded that rocky shores persisted there for >50 Ma. Generally, the Western Caucasus provides an example of granitoid exposures on Mesozoic seashores and adds knowledge of the global distribution of rocky shores in the Triassic and Jurassic periods.

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Temporal outline of geological heritage sites in the Western Caucasus

Cited by 2 publications

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Geosites of Northern Mountainous Adygeya (Southwestern Russia): A Novel Vision

Geosites of Northern Mountainous Adygeya (Southwestern Russia): A Novel Vision

Exposure of Carboniferous Granitoids on Triassic–Jurassic Seashores in the Western Caucasus: A Stratigraphical Review

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