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Altai - golden mountains. Altai is the highest mountains in Siberia. The highest peak of Belukha, its height is 4506 m
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Altai is a large mountainous region located in the central part of the country. In the north and northwest it borders on the Kuznetsk Alatau, the Salair Ridge, Mountain Shoria and the West Siberian Plain. In the east, Altai adjoins the Western Sayan and Tuva. The pattern of Altai mountain structures has the shape of a fan, turned to the west and northwest. Altai is divided into Central, Northwestern, Northeastern and Eastern.
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1. Before Paleozoic era and at its beginning, in place of the entire mountainous country in question there was a vast sea.
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2. By the end of the Paleozoic, a high folded mountainous country formed on the site of modern Altai. Hercynian folding
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3. Throughout Mesozoic era(several tens of millions of years) The Altai mountainous country was continuously destroyed by external forces and turned into an undulating plain.
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4. B Cenozoic era, when all the main features of the modern relief were formed, including mountain systems (the Himalayas, the Caucasus), the earth's crust in the place of Altai was broken by faults into numerous blocks. Some blocks began to rise, forming mountain ranges, others sank, forming wide valleys and basins. When faults formed, molten rocks rose along them, and when they slowly solidified, metal ores were released.
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5. Subsequently, the blocks of mountains were cut by flowing waters and glaciers. In transforming the relief into ice ages The leading role belonged to glaciers, during interglacial periods and at present - to flowing waters.
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The main watershed ridges of Altai are composed in most cases of granites, granite gneisses, micaceous schists and crystalline limestones
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The muddy water rushes down the narrow rocky riverbed with a terrible roar and great speed, carrying with it everything that gets in its way. The water breaks huge trees like thin sticks, crumbles them, carries them down.
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Large boulders that are beyond the strength of dozens of people, the water easily rolls along the bottom of the riverbed.
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Rivers from gorges often end in waterfalls and cascading waterfalls. Cutting through mountain ranges, water encounters rocks of varying strength along its path, forming waterfalls, as a result of which the river bed acquires a stepped character. There are countless waterfalls in Altai.
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Lake Teletskoye is located at an altitude of 436 m, in a narrow depression 77 km long and 1-6 km wide. Its greatest depth is 325 m. This gives grounds to consider the lake the second deepest after Baikal. Depending on the influx of river water, the lake level changes, falling in winter and rising in summer.
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The flora of Altai consists of 1840 species. It includes alpine, forest and steppe forms. There are 212 known endemic species, accounting for 11.5%. In the northwestern and northern foothills, the plain steppes turn into mountain steppes and forest-steppes. The mountain slopes are dominated by a forest belt, which on the highest ridges gives way to belts of subalpine and alpine meadows and mountain tundra, above which there are glaciers on many high peaks.
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Altai Mountains - represent complex system the highest ridges in Siberia, separated by deep river valleys and vast intramountain and intermountain basins.
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Location.
The mountain system is located where the borders of Russia, Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan meet. It is divided into Southern Altai (Southwestern), Southeastern Altai and Eastern Altai, Central Altai, Northern and Northeastern Altai, Northwestern Altai.
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Origin of name.
The origin of the name “Altai” is associated with the Turkic-Mongolian word “altyn”, meaning “gold”, “golden”.
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There are three main types of relief in Altai: the surface of residual ancient peneplain, alpine-type glacial high-mountain relief and mid-mountain relief.
The alpine relief in Altai rises above the surface of the ancient peneplain and occupies higher sections of the Katunsky, Chuisky, Kuraisky, Sailyugem, Chikhachev, Shapshalsky, Southern Altai, Sarymsakty ridges. Alpine terrain is less widespread than the surface of the ancient peneplain. Ridges with alpine landforms are their most elevated axial parts (up to 4000-4500 m), strongly dissected by erosion and frost weathering.
The ancient peneplain is a high mountain range with a wide development of leveling surfaces and steep, stepped slopes modified by regressive erosion.
The mid-mountain relief has heights from 800 to 1800-2000 m and occupies more than half of the territory of Altai. The upper limit of the distribution of mid-mountain relief is limited by the plane of the ancient peneplain, but this boundary is not sharp. The relief here is characterized by smooth, rounded shapes of low ridges and their spurs, separated by river valleys.
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In the highlands there are also plateaus. The Ulagan Plateau is a high-mountain plain with a wavy, slightly indented surface. The Ukok Plateau and the Chulyshman Plateau have a more dissected relief, formed as a result of glacial and partially erosional processes.
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Altai caves.
There are about 300 caves in Altai: there are many of them in the Charysh, Anui, and Katun basins. One of the interesting caves is Bolshaya Pryamukhinskaya, 320 m long. It is located on the right bank of the Pryamukha spring, the left tributary of the Yarovka, which flows into the Inya. The entrance to the cave is through a shaft 40 m deep. The longest cave in Altai is Muzeynaya, more than 700 m, located near the village of Karakol, on the right bank of the Karakol, the left tributary of the Anui. The cave has two entrances through wells 17-20 m deep. In the Museum Cave there are various sinter forms - stalactites and stalagmites.
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The Altai mountains are gradually being destroyed by the forces of nature: heat and frost, snow and rain, wind and flowing waters crush and carry away the upper layers, exposing dense crystalline rocks - granites, porphyries, marble. The rocky peaks are cracking into huge, jumbled pieces. Scree consisting of small fragmentary material descends along the slopes of the mountains.
Mountains of Southern Siberia
Altai Mountains The Altai Mountains represent a complex system of the highest ridges in Siberia, separated by deep river valleys and vast intramountain and intermountain basins.
Scheme of altitudinal zones
Location Altai is a mountain system in Asia, in southern Siberia and Central Asia, on the territory of Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and China. It stretches in latitude from 81 to 106 east longitude, in longitude from 42 to 52 north latitude. It extends from northwest to southeast for more than 2000 km. It consists of high-mountain and mid-mountain ridges and intermountain basins separating them. Orographically, the Gobi Altai, Mongolian Altai and Russian Altai are distinguished.
IN THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST IT IS BORDERED by the West Siberian Plain, in the northeast by the Western Sayan Mountains and the mountains of Southern Tuva, in the east by the Valley of the Great Lakes, and in the southeast by the GOBI Desert.
Boskaus River.
Chui steppe.
Katun
Altai mountain system
Water resources
Mount SinyukhaFlora and fauna of Altai
Lake Teletskoye