From the Bosporus to Kopet Dagh: Morphological, Genetic and Bioacoustic Variation in the Chiffchaff in Turkey, the Caucasus and Western Turkmenistan

Ardea ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Marova ◽  
Irina Ilyina ◽  
Pavel Kvartalnov ◽  
Vassiliy Grabovsky ◽  
Maryana Belokon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Caucasus ◽  
Kopet Dagh

Seismotectonic maps of southwest Asia region comprising Eastern Turkey, Caucasus, Persian Plateau, Afghanistan and Hindukush

1974 ◽  
Vol 64 (3-1) ◽  
pp. 657-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. L. Kaila ◽  
N. Madhava Rao ◽  
Hari Narain
Keyword(s):  
Fracture Zone ◽  
Seismic Activity ◽  
B Value ◽  
Southwest Asia ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Regression Curves ◽  
A Value ◽  
Thrust Zone ◽  
Kopet Dagh ◽  
Regional Tectonics

abstract Three seismic activity maps, the A-value map, the b-value map and the returnperiod map for earthquakes with magnitude 6 and above, have been prepared for the southwest Asia region using the Kaila and Narain (1971) method, and the same are compared with regional tectonics. For the preparation of these maps, a modified relation A = 6.36b - 1.00 has been used instead of the earlier relation where A and b are constants in the cumulative regression curve represented by log N = A − bM. The A-value seismicity map reveals that the Southwest Asia region consists of a number of seismic high zones such as the Caucasus-Abul Samsar high, the Zagros high, the Shahrud-Doruneh high and the Hindukush-West Pakistan high. The Caucasus-Abul Samsar seismic high shows two superimposed trends, one NW-SE which is consistent with the Caucasus tectonic trend and the other NE-SW which is parallel to the Abul Samsar fracture zone. The Zagros seismic high runs in the NW-SE direction almost parallel to the Zagros thrust zone with diversions to the northeast at the two ends. High seismic activity is revealed in the Zagros foothills area rather than the thrust-zone. The Shahrud-Doruneh high shows a NW-SE trend parallel to Kopet Dagh, and, toward the west, it bends down aligning itself almost parallel to the Elburz mountains, thus indicating the possibility of a connection between this high and the Zagros high. The Hindukush-West Pakistan high runs in the NNE-SSW direction consistent with the tectonic trends in this area, indicating the highest seismic activity near the Yasman fracture zone. The b-value seismicity map also reveals the same seismic features as brought out by the A-value map. The b-values obtained by this new method over various regions of southwest Asia agree fairly well with those reported by other workers obtained from earthquake regression curves. The return-period map further brings out the zones of high and low seismic activity which are quite consistent with the A-and the b-value maps, and the regional tectonics.

scholarly journals Notes on Prehistoric Mounds in the Caucasus and Turkestan

1919 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 112-117
Author(s):  
S. Casson
Keyword(s):  
The Caucasus ◽  
Railway Line ◽  
Kopet Dagh

On the occasion of a journey by railway across the Caucasus and into Western Turkestan in March, 1919, I found the opportunity of making a few notes upon objects of archaeological and ethnological interest in these areas. Unfortunately it was impossible to obtain any very detailed information as to mounds and other sites; and these notes are, in consequence, hardly more than a record of things observed en route. I was not able to obtain specimens of pottery from any of the mounds here referred to.The area dealt with is the ground in the Caucasus covered by the main railway line from Batum to Baku, and in Turkestan by the plains at the foothills of the Balkhan and Kopet Dagh ranges over which the Central Asiatic railway runs eastwards from Krasnovodsk, its Caspian terminus.

scholarly journals SEISMOGENIC NODES DEFINED BY PATTERN RECOGNITION IN THE CENTRAL PART OF THE ALPINEHIMALAYAN BELT

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 1426 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Novikova ◽  
A. Gorshkov
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Fault Zones ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Himalayan Belt ◽  
Hazard And Risk ◽  
The Common ◽  
Hazard And Risk Assessment ◽  
Kopet Dagh ◽  
Seismogenic Nodes

Information on the areas prone to the strongest earthquakes in a region is very important for knowledgeable seismic hazard and risk assessment. We consider the central part of the Alpine-Himalayan Belt (Caucasus–Kopet Dagh-Alburz) for the recognition of seismogenic nodes capable of M7+ earthquakes. The nodes formed around the intersections of the fault zones are viewed as objects of recognition which have been described by the common set of geologic, geomorphologic and geophysical parameters. 150 nodes out of 510 ones delineated in the Caucasus Kopet Dagh- Alburz region were recognized prone for earthquakes M7+. We have recognized a number of capable nodes where earthquakes M7+ have not yet been recorded.

Composition of the Petroleum of the Caucasus

1881 ◽  
Vol 12 (288supp) ◽  
pp. 4589-4589
Author(s):  
MM. P. Schutzenberger ◽  
N. Toniner
Keyword(s):  
The Caucasus

How Alexander entered India With a note on Ortospana (the ancient name of Ghazni?)

Afghanistan ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Rapin ◽  
Frantz Grenet
Keyword(s):  
The Caucasus ◽  
Kabul River

This paper concerns the cartography of Afghanistan in antiquity using the example of Ortospana, a toponym that is presumably a corruption of *Oryospana, the ancient name of Ghazni. In order to cover all the hypotheses involved in this study, the itinerary of Alexander will also be revisited from southern and northern Afghanistan to Taxila through the crossroads of Alexandria in the Caucasus and along the Kabul River.

The Medieval Population of Mountainous Ingushetia According to Odontological Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 178-196
Author(s):  
Natalya A. Lejbova ◽  
Umalat B. Gadiev
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Traits ◽  
Dental Anthropology ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
New Material ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Village ◽  
Medieval Population

Although population of the Caucasus has been studied in a rather detailed way, there are peoples whose anthropological portrait is still incomplete. Among them are the Ingush, one of the oldest autochthonous peoples of the Caucasus. This work presents new material on the dental anthropology of medieval Ingush, collected in 2017 during expeditions to the Jairakh and Sunzhen districts of the Republic of Ingushetia. In the Jairakh district, the investigations were carried out in the crypt complexes of the 15th–18th centuries – Targim, Agikal, Tsori, Salgi, and in Sunzhen region - in crypts near the village of Muzgan. The craniological series of medieval Ingush studied according to the dental anthropology program can be described as belonging to the western range of odontological complexes. Unlike most modern Caucasian groups, it does not belong to gracile forms, but rather to a maturized odontological variant, which has deep roots in the Caucasus. The results once again demonstrate a certain conservatism and stability of the dental system, which preserves morphological traits of ancestral groups longer than other anthropological systems.

Through the Lens of Gurdjieff

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-52
Author(s):  
Michael Pittman
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Successive Generations ◽  
Spiritual Conversation

G. I. Gurdjieff (c.1866–1949) was born in Gyumri, Armenia and raised in the Caucasus and eastern Asia Minor. He also traveled extensively throughout Turkey to places of pilgrimage and in search of Sufi teachers. Through the lens of Gurdjieff’s notion of legominism, or the means by which spiritual teachings are transmitted from successive generations, this article explores the continuing significance of spiritual practice and tradition and the ways that these forms remain relevant in shaping contemporary trends in spirituality. Beginning with Gurdjieff’s use of legominism, the article provides reflection on some early findings done in field research in Turkey— through site visits, interviews and participant-observation—conducted in the summers of 2014 and 2015. The aim of the project is both to meet individuals and groups, particularly connected to Sufism, that may have some contact with the influences that Gurdjieff would have been familiar with, and to visit some of the sites that were part of Gurdjieff’s early background and which served to inform his work. Considerations of contemporary practices include the view of spiritual transmission, and practices of pilgrimage, prayer and sohbet, or spiritual conversation, in an ongoing discourse about spiritual transformation.

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