Rarytkin Range Explained

Rarytkin Range
Other Name:Ръарыткын / Рарыткин
Highest:Mount Palets
Elevation M:1085
Elevation Ref:[1]
Parent:Koryak Highlands
Map:Russia Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Location:Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Far East
Coordinates:64.3333°N 195°W
Geology:Sandstone, andesite, shale
Length Km:200
Length Orientation:NE/SW
Easiest Route:From Krasneno

The Rarytkin Range (Russian: хребет Рарыткин; Ръарыткын)[2] is a range of mountains in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Far East. Administratively the range is part of Anadyr District.[3]

Geography

The Rarytkin Range is the northernmost subrange of the Koryak Highlands, East Siberian Mountains. It stretches roughly from southeast to northwest in southern Chukotka, along the left bank of the Velikaya River in its middle and lower course. To the northwest flows the Anadyr River and the range acts as an eastern boundary of the Anadyr Lowlands.[4]

The highest mountain of the Rarytkin Range is 1085m (3,560feet) high Mount Palets (гора Палец). It rises in the central area of the range.[1]

Lake Krasnoye is located at the feet of the northwestern part of the range. Rare fossil plants of the Maastrichtian and Eocene periods have been found in the range. Some of them are now kept in the Botanical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[5] [6] [7]

Flora and climate

There are shrub thickets of Japanese stone pine and alder in the lower mountain slopes. The upper elevations are covered with mountain tundra. The Rarytkin Range has a subarctic climate, somewhat moderated by the proximity of the ocean.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. http://loadmap.net/ru?qq=64.1450%20174.8621&z=12&s=-1&c=45&g=1 Topographic maps - GHZ
  2. https://xn--80aaaa1bhnclcci1cl5c4ep.xn--p1ai/cd1/names_m.html Atlas of Russia
  3. [Google Earth]
  4. Рарыткин — Great Soviet Encyclopedia in 30 vols. / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M, 1969–1978
  5. The flora of the Maastrichtian-Danian deposits of the Koryak Upland, Northeast Russia . 10.1006/cres.1994.1004 . 1994 . Golovneva . L.B. . Cretaceous Research . 15 . 1 . 89–100 . 1994CrRes..15...89G .
  6. Akhmetiev . M. A. . Samsonenko . V.L. . New Species of the Eocene Plants from the Rarytkin Ridge (North Korjakia) . March 1997 .
  7. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/293406560_Palaeogene_of_the_Rarytkin_ridge_NE_part_of_Koryakskoe_Upland Palaeogene of the Rarytkin ridge, NE part of Koryakskoe Upland