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Soil Formation in the Early Pliocene by Data of the Alma-Peschanoe Loess-Soil Sequence, Western Crimea
The loess-paleosol sequence of the Alma-Peschanoe section located in the west of the Crimean Peninsula is analyzed. A comprehensive analysis of morphological, physicochemical, and some other features enables u...
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Late Pliocene Gilbert Type Delta and Early Pleistocene Drainage System Changes in the Erzurum Basin, NE Turkiye
The Late Pliocene Gilbert-type delta is described in the western Erzurum Basin (NE Turkiye) and its position in the Late Cenozoic development of the basin is defined. The Erzurum Basin originated no later than...
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Progress in Comparison of Elephantidae Fauna Based on Dental Study between the Plio-Pleistocene of the South of Eastern Europe and the Upper Siwaliks of India
Plio-Pleistocene faunal complexes of the south of Eastern Europe and the formations of Upper Siwaliks of India were correlated. Proboscidean assemblages were used as a biomarker to revise evolutionary levels, ...
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Stratigraphy of Cenozoic Deposits and the History of the Latest Stage of Geological Development of the Zaisan Depression (Eastern Kazakhstan)
The Zaisan Depression is a unique geological structure that preserves the most complete sedimentary record of the Late Mesozoic and most of the Cenozoic. A century of studies brought very rich data on the stra...
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On the Current Structure of the Quaternary Geological System
The paper deals with the application issues of a new structure of the Quaternary Geological System approved recently by the International Commission on Stratigraphy in the practice of geological work in Russia...
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Southeastern Europe as the Arena of Vertebrate Evolution in the Late Miocene
The paper considers the main features of the late Miocene faunas of terrestrial vertebrates and marine mammals of Southeastern Europe and their general dynamics in connection with landscape and climatic change...
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Early Pleistocene White-toothed Shrew Crocidura kornfeldi (Lipotyphla, Soricidae) from Crimea
The remains of the white-toothed shrew Crocidura kornfeldi Kormos, 1934 (one skull fragment with almost complete dentition, the fragmental rostral part of a skull with the left upper incisor, a maxillary fragment...
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Tectonics of Pleistocene Deposits in the Northeast of Taman Peninsula, South Azov Sea Region
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 sedim...
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Singil Deposits in the Quaternary Scheme of the Lower Volga Region: New Data
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 R...
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Quaternary tectonics of recent basins in northwestern Armenia
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 top...
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Reconstruction of Late Pleistocene events in the periglacial area in the southern part of the East European Plain
An integrated study of the loess–soil sequence in the coastal exposure near the settlement of Beglitsa (Rostov oblast) allowed us, for the first time, to reconstruct the landscape-climatic changes that occurre...
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Geochemical indicators of paleoclimatic changes in the Cenozoic deposits of the Lower Aldan Basin
Major and trace element composition of the Upper Cenozoic deposits of the Chuya section (the lower reaches of the Aldan River, Central Yakutia) made up of the Middle Miocene and Neopleistocene sediments was st...
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First record of Mylagaulid rodents (Rodentia, mammalia) from the Miocene of Eastern Siberia (Olkhon island, Baikal Lake, Irkutsk Region, Russia)
A new genus and species of rodent, Lamugaulus olkhonensis, belonging to the subfamily Promylagaulinae of the family Mylagaulidae, is described on the basis of isolated teeth from the Khalagay Formation of the ...
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Mass burial of Late Pleistocene bisons in the northeastern part of the Sea of Azov area (Port Katon, Rostov Region)
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Development of the steppe zone in southern Russia based on the reconstruction from the loess-soil formation in the Don-Azov Region
Herbaceous communities in forest ecosystems on the southern part of the Russian Plain appeared in the Middle Miocene (∼10 Ma BP). In the Late Miocene (∼7 Ma BP), feather-grass steppe associations appeared amon...
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Structural specificity of pleistocene loess and soil formation of the southern Russian plain according to materials of Eastern Priazovie
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Radiation events in the subfamily Arvicolinae (Rodentia): Evidence from nuclear genes
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Supraspecies relationships in the subfamily Arvicolinae (Rodentia, Cricetidae): An unexpected result of nuclear gene analysis
Phylogenetic analysis of the supraspecies relationships was carried out using partial sequences of two nuclear genes in the subfamily Arvicolinae, which is one of the youngest and species-rich groups of myomor...
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Maeotian mammalian localities of Eastern Paratethys: Magnetochronology and position in European continental scales
The Maeotian of Eastern Paratethys corresponds to the interval of the magnetochronological scale from the base of the subchron C4Ar2n to upper parts of the Chron C4n (9.6–7.5 Ma). Fission-track dates of Maeoti...
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Late Sarmatian mammal localities of the Eastern Paratethys: Stratigraphic position, magnetochronology, and correlation with the European continental scale
Analysis of geological sections, paleogeography, and paleomagnetic data is used to reveal succession of the middle to late Sarmatian mammal localities of the Eastern Paratethys and their correlation with the c...
