Belsky Depression ( Belskaya Depression , Piedmont Depression ) is a large negative first-order tectonic structure in the Ural marginal trough . It is distinguished in the Paleozoic and Pre-Paleozoic sediments. It extends along the western slope of the Bashkir (Southern) Urals. Length 150 km, width 25β45 km.
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Description
In the north it borders with the Karatau Uplift , in the south with the Shikhan-Ishimbay saddle , in the west with the Annunciation Depression , and in the east with the Bashkir meganticlinorium . The middle part is complicated by the sub - latitudinal Inzero-Usolsky trough .
The Belgian depression in its central part consists of sedimentary rocks and is divided into three tiers
- lower - pre-Kungurian, Permian, more ancient deposits
- middle - includes deposits of Kungur, Perm and Lower Triassic
- hollows and troughs of Kungur salts.
Toponymy
The name is given along the Belaya River , in the basin of which is located and having a common slope from east to west - to the Belaya and Kama rivers.
Literature
- Karst of Bashkortostan. UFSC Institute of Geology. Ufa 2005
- Geology of the USSR, M. 1964
Links
E.V. Login. Belgian depression . BASHKIR ENCYCLOPEDIA . GAUN RB "Bashkir Encyclopedia" (2015β2017). Date of treatment April 7, 2017.