Beshtau
Encyclopedia
Beshtau is an isolated five-domed igneous mountain (laccolith
) near Pyatigorsk
(after the Russian term Pyatigorye 'area of five mountains') in the Northern Caucasus.
Its height is 1402 m. The slopes are forested with ash
, oak
, hornbeam
, and beech
, and the summit is treeless. Beshtau used to have uranium mines, which were closed in 1985.
Laccolith
A laccolith is a sheet intrusion that has been injected between two layers of sedimentary rock. The pressure of the magma is high enough that the overlying strata are forced upward, giving the laccolith a dome or mushroom-like form with a generally planar base.Laccoliths tend to form at relatively...
) near Pyatigorsk
Pyatigorsk
Pyatigorsk is a city in Stavropol Krai on the Podkumok River, about from Mineralnye Vody. Since January 19, 2010 it has been the administrative center of the North Caucasian Federal District of Russia...
(after the Russian term Pyatigorye 'area of five mountains') in the Northern Caucasus.
Its height is 1402 m. The slopes are forested with ash
Ash tree
Fraxinus is a genus flowering plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae. It contains 45-65 species of usually medium to large trees, mostly deciduous though a few subtropical species are evergreen. The tree's common English name, ash, goes back to the Old English æsc, while the generic name...
, oak
Oak
An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus , of which about 600 species exist. "Oak" may also appear in the names of species in related genera, notably Lithocarpus...
, hornbeam
Hornbeam
Hornbeams are relatively small hardwood trees in the genus Carpinus . Though some botanists grouped them with the hazels and hop-hornbeams in a segregate family, Corylaceae, modern botanists place the hornbeams in the birch subfamily Coryloideae...
, and beech
Beech
Beech is a genus of ten species of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia and North America.-Habit:...
, and the summit is treeless. Beshtau used to have uranium mines, which were closed in 1985.