Suntar-Khayata Range
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Suntar-Khayata Range is a granite
mountain range
rising along border of Sakha Republic in the north with Amur Oblast
and Khabarovsk Krai
in the south.
The highest point of the range is Mus-Khaya Mountain
in Sakha Republic, 2959 m. Berill Mountain
, 2933 m, is the highest in Khabarovsk Krai.
Suntar-Khayata Range is a watershed divide between the Aldan River
, which eventually flows into the Lena River
and the Arctic Ocean
, and the Sea of Okhotsk
, where the Uda River drains the eastern side. It contains the southernmost glacier
s in the Russian Far East outside of Kamchatka, though its status
is not known.
The range is approximately 450-550 km long and 60 km wide.
There are a sparse tree larch
forest
s and tundra
in higher on range's slope
s.
. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
mountain range
Mountain range
A mountain range is a single, large mass consisting of a succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges, with or without peaks, closely related in position, direction, formation, and age; a component part of a mountain system or of a mountain chain...
rising along border of Sakha Republic in the north with Amur Oblast
Amur Oblast
Amur Oblast is a federal subject of Russia , situated about east of Moscow on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers. It shares its border with the Sakha Republic in the north, Khabarovsk Krai and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the east, People's Republic of China in the south, and Zabaykalsky...
and Khabarovsk Krai
Khabarovsk Krai
Khabarovsk Krai is a federal subject of Russia , located in the Russian Far East. It lies mostly in the basin of the lower Amur River, but also occupies a vast mountainous area along the coastline of the Sea of Okhotsk, an arm of the Pacific Ocean. The administrative center of the krai is the...
in the south.
The highest point of the range is Mus-Khaya Mountain
Mus-Khaya Mountain
Mus-Khaya Mountain is a mountain in Sakha Republic and the highest point of Suntar-Khayata Range.An elevation of ice-covered summit is 2,959 m.The mountain is located 485 km to the south of Arctic Circle and 135 km to the southwest of Oymyakon....
in Sakha Republic, 2959 m. Berill Mountain
Berill Mountain
Berill is a peak in Suntar-Khayata Range.An elevation above sea level of the mountain is 2,933 m. It is the highest point of Khabarovsk Krai....
, 2933 m, is the highest in Khabarovsk Krai.
Suntar-Khayata Range is a watershed divide between the Aldan River
Aldan River
The Aldan River is the second-longest tributary of the Lena River in the Sakha Republic in eastern Siberia. The river is 2,273 km long, of which around 1,600 km is navigable. It was part of the River Route to Okhotsk...
, which eventually flows into the Lena River
Lena River
The Lena is the easternmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean . It is the 11th longest river in the world and has the 9th largest watershed...
and the Arctic Ocean
Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions...
, and the Sea of Okhotsk
Sea of Okhotsk
The Sea of Okhotsk is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaidō to the far south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and...
, where the Uda River drains the eastern side. It contains the southernmost glacier
Glacier
A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...
s in the Russian Far East outside of Kamchatka, though its status
Retreat of glaciers since 1850
The retreat of glaciers since 1850 affects the availability of fresh water for irrigation and domestic use, mountain recreation, animals and plants that depend on glacier-melt, and in the longer term, the level of the oceans...
is not known.
The range is approximately 450-550 km long and 60 km wide.
There are a sparse tree larch
Larch
Larches are conifers in the genus Larix, in the family Pinaceae. Growing from 15 to 50m tall, they are native to much of the cooler temperate northern hemisphere, on lowlands in the north and high on mountains further south...
forest
Forest
A forest, also referred to as a wood or the woods, is an area with a high density of trees. As with cities, depending where you are in the world, what is considered a forest may vary significantly in size and have various classification according to how and what of the forest is composed...
s and tundra
Tundra
In physical geography, tundra is a biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. The term tundra comes through Russian тундра from the Kildin Sami word tūndâr "uplands," "treeless mountain tract." There are three types of tundra: Arctic tundra, alpine...
in higher on range's slope
Slope
In mathematics, the slope or gradient of a line describes its steepness, incline, or grade. A higher slope value indicates a steeper incline....
s.
Geology
The strata of this geological formation date back to the Late JurassicLate Jurassic
The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 161.2 ± 4.0 to 145.5 ± 4.0 million years ago , which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata. In European lithostratigraphy, the name "Malm" indicates rocks of Late Jurassic age...
. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.
Vertebrate paleofauna
Indeterminate Carnosauria remains, possible indeterminate coelurosaur remains, indeterminate Sauropoda remains that had been previously referred to Camarasauridae indet, and indeterminate Theropoda remains have all been recovered from Suntar outcrops in Sakha Republic, Russia.| Dinosaur Dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of... s of the Suntar Series |
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