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The Great Lakes Depression in northwestern Mongolia contains widespread Late Neogene continental deposits, reaching thicknesses of several hundred metres. The Late Neogene Khyargas Nuur formation (also known as the Khirgis-Nur formation) has a significant biostratigraphic value for Central Asia, as it encompasses a unique palaeontological record an...
The Russian sector of the Eastern Arctic is characterized by large basins with thick sedimentary filling, primarily on the shelf and continental slope of the seas of the Arctic Ocean. A number of geological, geophysi-cal, and geochemical features point to a hydrocarbon potential. At the same time, the age and composition of the sedimentary infill o...
The results of comparative analysis of the structure and history of the Neogene-Quaternary development of 18 inrermontane basins in Northern Armenia and Eastern Türkiye are presented. The research is based on expeditionary work carried out by the authors in 2012–2023, and supplemented by published materials from other researchers. Palaeontological,...
The Stratigraphic Drilling Project of the Russian Arctic Shelf conducted by the PJSC Rosneft is aimed at discover the stratigraphic age and rock composition of sedimentary succession of its subsurface. In 2021, six shallow wells for the first time have been drilled with core sampling in the east of the Laptev Sea. Drilling revealed folded sedimenta...
The Stratigraphic Drilling Project of the Russian Arctic Shelf, conducted by the Rosneft Oil Company , focuses their attention on the stratigraphic age and composition of rock complexes of the sedimentary basins. In 2021, six shallow boreholes for the first time were drilled with core sampling in the eastern part of the Laptev Sea. Drilling recover...
Erzurum intermontane basin in north-eastern Turkey experienced terrigenous and carbonate sedimentation in Mio-Pleistocene. A Gilbert-type delta is described in the west of the basin. The delta deposits are dated to Late Pliocene based on bio- and magnetostratigraphy. The eroded surface of the delta is overlain by pebbles dated to Early Pleistocene...
The Severnaya Dvina River valley crosses the former southeastern margin of the last Scandinavian Ice Sheet. Despite a long research history, there remains considerable controversy about the maximum ice-sheet extent and the expansion of proglacial lakes within the Severnaya Dvina fluvial system. The goal of this study was to address these issues usi...
The article presents new data obtained as a result of field research in 2022 Sevan intermountain depression in Armenia. The emergence of the Sevan intermountain depression in the Miocene was associated with the development of the Sevan almond-shaped structure, bounded by the right-lateral Pambak‒Sevan‒Syunik fault zone in the northeast, the Garni z...
The highest Shahdag-Qusar segment of the South-Eastern Caucasus, located on the border of Azerbaijan and Russia, is considered. Ridges of Greater Caucasus axial zone are the closest to the Caspian Sea coast here, and the latest marine deposits cover the high-mountainous watershed surfaces. Research results of the Plio-Quaternary tectonic movements...
The paper presents new data on brackish-water Upper Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene deposits that were studied in the Demirkent (Kars) and Pekecik (Erzurum) sections, NE Turkey. The Demirkent section is situated in the southwestern slope of the Shirak Late Cenozoic intermontane basin near the Turkish-Armenian border. The Pekecik section is situated...
The studied sequence is one of the most detailed soil-sedimentary terrestrial archives in Eastern Europe due to its specific geomorphological position – into the paleo-balka. The climate changes are reflected from the Mikulino interglacial to the Holocene. At the base of paleodepression the Ryshkovsky pedolithocomplex (MIS 5e, 127–117 ka) lies, the...
The period when humans settled in the Russian plain and cultural traits of its first settlers remain a matter of debate. This paper analyzes materials from a stratified site known as Kryashchi located in the Lower Don region which is the earliest Acheulean site in the southeastern part of the Russian plain. The paper summarizes data on the site, an...
Время заселения человеком Русской равнины и культурные особенности ее первых поселенцев остаются предметом дискуссий. В статье анализируются материалы древнейшей на юго-востоке Русской равнины стратифицированной ашельской стоянки Хрящи на Нижнем Дону. Суммируются сведения о стоянке, приводятся предварительные результаты новых исследований. Анализ о...
The paper is devoted to the Middle and Upper Pleistocene stratigraphy of the Vychegda River basin, located in the far northeast of Europe, in the Timan–Pechora–Vychegda subzone of the Middle–Late Pleistocene glaciations. The available litho-/chrono-/biostratigraphy data were have been obtained from more than 20 natural outcrops along the valley of...
The Kosika locality is situated on the lowest terrace of the Enotayevka River (right channel of the Volga River) near Kosika village, in the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation. This locality includes several sections, named Kosika 1–4 and Borehole 2 Kosika that are described in detail for the first time. Drilling, sediment descriptions, and...
Integrated paleogeographic studies have been performed on the loess and soil sequence in the lower reaches of the Orkhon R., northern Mongolia. The samples were taken continuously through the sequence and studied using a broad assortment of field and laboratory analyses. There are five paleosols exposed in the section under study crowned with the p...
Evolution of European ecosystems based on the mammalian and fpolristic data was revieled.
Stratigraphy, structure, and tectonics of the Turkish part of the intermontane Shirak Basin and the adjacent Susuz Basin were studied based on methods of structural geology, geological and geomorphological correlation, paleontology, paleomagnetism, and archaeology. For the first time, the Pliocene-Quaternary stratigraphy and tectonics of the wester...
This book provides detailed reconstructions of mammal assemblages, vegetation ommunities and ecosystems of Europe during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. The reconstructions are based on palaeobiological data, united in databases and with help of mathematic methods. Reconstructions are made for the fi ve most successful time intervals. The text...
Studies in paleomagnetism, structural geology, and paleontology (mammals, molluscs, palynology) in the coastal sections of the Taman Peninsula north-eastern part (2017–18) resulted in definition of three sedimentary members. The sandy and clayey lower member (I) formed at 2.1–1.7 Ma. It contains a normally magnetised zone within deposits of reverse...
Studies in paleomagnetism, structural geology, and paleontology (mammals, mollusks, palynology) in the coastal sections of the Taman Peninsula north-western part (2017–18) resulted in definition of three sedimentary sequences. The sandy and clayey lower sequence (I) formed at 2.1–1.7 Ma. It contains a normally magnetised zone within deposits of rev...
The area under study belongs to the Armenian part of the Armenian volcanic Highland. Previous investigations (Milanovsky, 1968; Trifonov et al., 2014, 2016; Trifonov, 2016) revealed that mountain systems of the Arabia-Caucasus region as well as other segments of the Alpine-Himalayan Belt rose significantly and rapidly during the Late Miocene and pa...
Multidisciplinary research was carried out at the new Late Pleistocene Bokhan site in the Baikal region (Fore-Baikal) including geochemical and petrochemical X-ray fractions, palynological and palaeozoological studies, and AMS-dating. Four palynological complexes show a development of vegetation from open meadow-steppe landscapes that are replaced...
Majority of researchers consider the Arabian-Caucasus region as a corridor for migration of earliest hominins from their African motherland to Eurasia. The paper is devoted to geological position of main stratified localities of the earliest Paleolithic industries in the Arabian-Caucasus region and estimation of environment of creators of these ind...
Находки раннего палеолита древнее ашеля на территории Восточной Анатолии до недавнего времени были практически неизвестны. В ходе разведочных работ, проводившихся в 2014–2016 гг. совместной российско-турецкой экспедицией, в долине р. Евфрат было обнаружено несколько стратифицированных местонахождений раннего палеолита. Среди собранных каменных изде...
The Kosika locality is situated on the lowest terrace of the Enotayevka River (right channel of the Volga River) near Kosika village, in the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation. This locality includes several sections, named Kosika 1–4 and Borehole 2 Kosika that are described in detail for the first time. Drilling, sediment descriptions, and...
The Pliocene–Quaternary paleogeography of the Euphrates River valley changed due to sinistral movements on the East-Anatolian Fault Zone (EAFZ) and the Taurus Ridge rise by movements on the South-Taurus Thrust. Evidence of these changes is based on studies of the Pliocene–Quaternary deposits of the Euphrates River basin to the north and to the sout...
The paper presents the result of analysis of charred food on the interior part of the vessels from the graves of the East Manych and West Manych Catacomb archaeological cultures (2500–2350 cal bc). The phytolith and pollen analyses identified pollen of wild steppe plants and phytoliths of domesticated gramineous plants determined as barley phytolit...
This work presents the history of study of the Neopleistocene Singil deposits, results of analysis the drilling data, and different points of view on the stratigraphy of reference sections of the Lower Volga Region. A large volume of drilling core data indicate that the Singil deposits lie between the Lower Khazar and Upper Khazar deposits, which c...
Early Palaeolithic finds older than Acheulean were unknown in Eastern Anatolia until recently. During exploratory works carried out by a joint Russian-Turkish expedition in the Euphrates River basin (2014–2016), several stratified Early Palaeolithic localities were found. Lithic finds are represented by choppers, picks, retouched tools, and flakes....
Late Miocene continental deposits overlying the Khersonian marine sediments near the city of Maikop bordering the Belaya River (North Caucasus) yielded a diverse biotic record including palynology, ostracods, fresh-water and terrestrial molluscs, fishes, amphibians and reptiles, birds, and mammals. The obtained data indicate predominantly wooded la...
New data on the stratigraphy, faults, and formation history of lower to middle Pleistocene rocks in Late Cenozoic basins of northwestern Armenia are presented. It has been established that the low-mountain topography created by tectonic movements and volcanic activity existed in the region by the onset of the Pleistocene. The manifestations of two...
According to radiochemical and biostratigraphic studies of the buried peat layer in the Cheremoshnik key section on the East European plain, the first age dating of this peat was obtained and its assignment to the Mikulino interglacial was confirmed. The Th/U isotope age data obtained for the peat horizon allow us to state with confidence that it w...
The Quaternary stratigraphy and tectonic development of the southern Javakheti Upland and the adjacent Upper Akhurian and Lori uplifted basins in NW Armenia (Lesser Caucasus) and geological position of the early and middle Acheulian lithic industries were studied using a multi-method approach. Studies of sedimentary sections, petrological and geoch...
Paleogeography of the Euphrates River valley changes due to sinistral movements on the
East-Anatolian Fault Zone (EAFZ) and the Taurus Ridge rise by movements on the South Taurus
Thrust. Evidence of these changes is based on studies of the Pliocene–Quaternary deposits of the
Euphrates River basin to the north and the south of the Taurus Ridge and t...
Paleogeography of the Euphrates River valley changes due to sinistral movements on the
East-Anatolian Fault Zone (EAFZ) and the Taurus Ridge rise by movements on the South Taurus
Thrust. Evidence of these changes is based on studies of the Pliocene–Quaternary deposits of the
Euphrates River basin to the north and the south of the Taurus Ridge and t...
Paleogeography of the Euphrates River valley changes due to sinistral movements on the
East-Anatolian Fault Zone (EAFZ) and the Taurus Ridge rise by movements on the South Taurus
Thrust. Evidence of these changes is based on studies of the Pliocene–Quaternary deposits of the
Euphrates River basin to the north and the south of the Taurus Ridge and t...
The discovery of the Early Pleistocene sites of Bogatyri/Sinyaya Balka and Rodniki 1 on the Taman
Peninsula in western Ciscaucasia led to the recognition of a distinctive “Tamanian industry”, with a timerange of 1.6e1.2 Ma, and with characteristics that are transitional between Oldowan and Acheulean (“Archaic Acheulean”). The site of Kermek was dis...
The discovery of the Early Pleistocene sites of Bogatyri/Sinyaya Balka and Rodniki 1 on the Taman Peninsula in western Ciscaucasia led to the recognition of a distinctive “Tamanian industry”, with a time-range of 1.6–1.2 Ma, and with characteristics that are transitional between Oldowan and Acheulean (“Archaic Acheulean”). The site of Kermek was di...
Latest Pleistocene fossil soils and deposits have been described in the geoarchaeological site Divnogorie 9 (the Middle Don drainage basin) under the name of Divnogorie pedolithocomplex. For the first time, a soil-sediment series with 2-3 levels of soil formation has been described in the forest-steppe of the Russian Plain and dated to the Bølling-...
The Lower Pleistocene deposits (Palu unit) cover large areas in the lower Murat valley around and downstream the town of Palu and downstream junction of the Upper Euphrates and Murat rivers in the western side of the Euphrates valley around the city of Malatya. The age of the unit and the Early Pleistocene environment have been estimated by a combi...
The Lower Pleistocene deposits (Palu unit) cover large areas in the lower Murat valley around and downstream the town of Palu and downstream junction of the Upper Euphrates and Murat rivers in the western side of the Euphrates valley around the city of Malatya. The age of the unit and the Early Pleistocene environment have been estimated by a combi...
Новая раннепалеолитическая стоянка Кермек, расположенная в Запад-
ном Предкавказье, связана с хорошо изученной толщей аллювиально-прибрежно-
морских отложений раннего плейстоцена (позднего куяльника). Эти отложения
имеют обратную намагниченность и характеризуются пресноводными и солонова-
то-водными моллюсками (с Dreissena theodori) и фауной мелких...
The Quaternary stratigraphy and tectonic development of the southern Javakheti Upland and the adjacent Upper Akhurian and Lori uplifted basins in NW Armenia (Lesser Caucasus) as well as geological position of the early and middle Acheulian lithic industries within the Lower Pleistocene deposits are under consideration. The studies of sedimentary se...
As a result of integrated researches on two Paleolithic sites of the Fore-Baikal region – Bol'shoj Naryn and Gerasimov's, the first representative mammal fauna of the Karginian interstadial been dated and characterized. That provided the basis for reconstructing the paleoenvironments in the Fore-Baikal region during MIS 3. The species composition o...
New data on location, height, and composition of terraces of the El-Kabir and Orontes rivers in Syria are represented. By combined use of paleontological, archaeological, paleomagnetic, and radio-isotopic methods, ages of these river terraces are estimated and they are correlated with the Euphrates River terraces. The age of the terraces is defined...
In 2003, a mass burial of primeval European bisons Bison priscus was discovered between the settlements of Port Katon and Podlyudki.
В 2003 г. на южном побережье Таганрогского залива Азовского моря возле пос. Порт-Катон было обнаружено захоронение позднеплейстоценовых Bison priscus – типичных обитателей степных и лесостепных ландшафтов юга Восточной Европы. Абсолютный возраст находок около 46 000 лет. Захоронение сформировалось в результате одновременной катастрофической гибели...
Integrated study of the multilayer Zaktui site supplied a large volume of paleontological materials and a series of radiocarbon dates falling within the MIS 3–MIS 1 interval. Multidisciplinary data provided evidence of the past dynamics of environments and climate. Paleontological data point to a mosaic structure of landscapes, and suggest a temper...
A variety of studies of the re-examined (new exposure) Late Pleistocene key section Cheremoshnik (East European plain, middle of the Volga Basin of Yaroslavl) was conducted on a new methodological level using modern methods. For the first time, a series of paleosols (MIS5-MIS1) from the section offering significant information in regard to chronost...
This work is aimed at characterizing the 40-m-thick Paleogene-Neogene
sedimentary sequence of Bel'kov Island, which was accumulated in the
marginal part of a fluvial plain. On the basis of the plant megafossils
and spore-pollen data, the studied sediments were formed in the Late
Eocene-Early Miocene with a probable sedimentation gap at the
Eocene-O...
The Guidebook presents the morphological, micromorphological, chemical and physical characteristics of Late Pleistocene and Holocene soils of the Central Chernozemic zone (Kursk and Voronezh regions). The information on the modern environmental conditions of the Central Russian Upland is also provided. The environmental dynamics of the area are pre...