Kuznetsk Alatau

Kuznetsk Alatau

Kuznetsk Alatau ( _ru. Кузнецкий Алатау) is a mountain range, South Siberia, Russia between Kuznetsk Depression and Minusinsk Depression. Length: about 300 km., elevation: up to convert|2178|m|ft|0. It is part of the mountain system of Central Asia.

These mountains have smooth outline, rather steep western and gentle eastern slopes. The fir overwhelmingly predominates in the forest belt except for its upper part where, at the tree line (1300-1900 m), the stone pine becomes a dominant. The highlands are occupied mostly by vast large-stoned screes, and also by patches of subalpine meadows and, on some southern mountain massifs, of bushy, lichen and moss tundras. The basin of the Kondoma River in Gornaya Shoriya is remarkable for the lime-tree woods which are thought to be the relics of a pre-Pleistocene nemoral vegetation of Siberia. All over the upland the forest openings are occupied by long forb forest meadows. [cite web|url=http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/korgor/geogr.htm|title=A geographic scetch, the text from Korshunov & Gorbunov (1995)]

The range is composed mainly of metamorphic rocks rich in iron, manganese, nephelines, and gold.

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