STRUCTURE OF THE LARGE CAUCASUS - THE RESULT OF THE GENTLY SLOPING THRUST OF THE SCYTHIAN PLATE EARTH’S CRUST ON THE CONSOLIDATED CRUST OF THE TRANSCAUCASIAN MICROS-PLATES

Abstract

Brief information about the intersections with deep geophysical studies of the large Caucasus structure is given and the results of the last years works along the Adygea profile (Dagomys-Abadzekhskaya-Giaginskaya), where for the first time with the even step of observations obtained the complex geophysical characteristic of the earth’s crust section into the cross of the entire structure of orogen. On the factual materials basis MWEDE, MTS and gravimagnetic surveys the separate elements of the structure of the large Caucasus are separated as the part of the Alpine collision belt, which obviously arose with the gently sloping thrust from the north of the scythian plate earth’s crust on the consolidated crust of the Transcaucasian micros-plates