The old highlands ( drill. Ara Hingaan hadalig gazar - “Outer Khingan” ) - a mountain system in Transbaikalia in the territory of Buryatia with a length of about 700 km from the northern tip of Lake Baikal to the middle course of the Olekma River in the east-northeast direction . It includes the mountain ranges Yuzhno-Muysky , Severo-Muysky , Kodar , Udokan , Kalarsky and large intermontane basins of the Baikal type at an altitude of 500-1000 m ( Verkhneangarskaya , Muisko-Kuandinskaya , Verkhnecharskaya ).
| Highlands | |
|---|---|
| Boer. Ara Hingaan Hadalig Gazar | |
| Characteristics | |
| Length | 700 km |
| Location | |
| A country |
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| The subject of the Russian Federation | Buryatia |
The highlands are composed mainly of crystalline and metamorphic rocks with the widespread distribution of permafrost. There are deposits of gold , copper , fluorite , coal .
Vegetation is represented mainly by larch taiga on the mountain slopes, alternating at altitudes of more than 1200 m with light forest and mountain tundra . The bottoms of the hollows are swampy floodplain meadows, and their slopes are overgrown with pine and pine-deciduous forests.
See also
- Stanovoi Range (Far East)
Notes
Links
- Highlands of the highlands (physical map, scale 1: 2 500 000) // National Atlas of Russia . - M .: Roskartografiya, 2004. - T. 1. - S. 250. - 496 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 5-85120-217-3 .