Caucasus Mountains

Recently, a U.S.S.R.-Czechoslovokian research group have reported 14C data for dated wine samples from the Caucasus Mountains [27]. Their results are in fairly close agreement with our results for the time of overlapping data (figure 5). If the anomalous data for A.D. 1943 are omitted, the fifth order polynomial fit to the data yields a 5 per mil peak to trough amplitude with a phase lag of 4 years behind sunspot numbers. The amplitude... 

Complexity of the relief of Georgia causes difficulties of gas mains construction. The most complex profile has the North-South Caucasus pipeline system. This system is crossing of the Caucasus Mountains with certain parts located on the Caucasian ridge. The highest segment of the profile is located at 2400 m altitude. Such conditions cause special requirements for its operation. Besides a significant difference between altitudes, the temperature variation must also be taken into consideration. The similar complex profile will have the South Caucasian Pipeline system as well with maximum altitude point above 2000 m. 

The Cymry came from ancient Albania, then located to the south of the Caucasus Mountains and bordering the western coast of the Caspian Sea ... 

Other widely unknown ozone data from the Soviet Union measured in Moscow and in the Caucasus Mountains (Konstantinova-Schlesinger 1937a, 1937b, 1938),... 

Poisonous honey (pontius or insane honey) has been known since the time of the Greek historian and general, Xenophon, and the Roman writer, Plinius, It comes mostly from bees collecting their nectar from rhododendron species (Asia Minor, Caucasus Mountains) some plants of the... 

A similar situation is encountered at the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone where the Anatolian Block, bounded by the left-lateral East Anatolian Fault at the southeast and the right-lateral North Anatolian Fault at the north, is escaping westward as the Arabian plate bulldozes into Eurasia generating the Caucasus Mountains. The destructive 1999 = 7.4 Izmit, Turkey,... 

Ronov et al. (1972, 1974) broadened the study to include the Russian and Scythian platforms (representative of stable, continental regions), the mio-geosyncline of the high Caucasus mountains, the mountains themselves, and the seaward eugeosyncline. The lanthanide concentrations in clays (shales) increased in a regular manner from the eugeosynclinal sediments to the Russian Platform a similar trend was observed for carbonates (fig. 21.3). The opposite... 

Fig. 21.3. Trends of total lanthanide abundance in sediments with location relative to the Russian Platform and adjacent eugeosyncline are shown (Ronov et al., 1972, 1974). Zone 1 is the farthest inland and represents the Russian Platform, zone 2 the Scythian Platform, zone 3 the northern mio-geosyncline of the high Caucasus mountains, zone 4 the southern miogeosyncline, zone 5 the trans-caucasian central massif, and zone 6 the seaward low Caucasus eugeosyncline.

Two independent gallium experiments were performed, one by a collaboration of Soviet scientists from the Institute of Nuclear Research of Moscow with the American institutions of the Brookhaven and Los Alamos National Laboratories and the University of Pennsylvania. The experiment known by the acronym SAGE was located in the institute s underground laboratory in the Baksan Valley in the north Caucasus mountains. In this Soviet-American experiment, 60 tons of gallium metal (melting point 30°C) were used. The germanium was extracted by an oxidizing hydrochloric acid solution. 

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