Podolian platter
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Ukrainian Подільська височина
alsopartiallyequated the Podolian highlands with the Volhyn-Podolian plate |
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Tectonic structure of Ukraine:
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| Highest peak | the mountain Kamula ( 471.9 m ) |
| location | Ukraine / Republic of Moldova |
| part of | Eastern European level |
 Incision of the Dniester in the Podolian Plate near Salishchyky |
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The Podolian Plate ( Ukrainian Подільська височина ; also called the Podolian Highlands ; partly equated with the Volhyn-Podolian Plate ) is a very elongated plateau in Ukraine up to 471.9 m high with foothills in the northeast of the Republic of Moldova .
The Podolische Platte is located in the southwest of the great Eastern European Plain, among other things in the landscapes of Galicia and Podolia . It stretches from Lviv to the southeast, for example through the area of Ternopil and Khmelnyzkyj and past Vinnytsia , which is in the transition area to the Dnepr highlands on the Southern Bug , through the area from Podilsk to the lowlands on the Black Sea with Odessa on its coast . The plate extends south of the sources of the Western Bug and the Southern Bug and between the rivers of the Southern Bug approximately in the northeast and the Dniester approximately in the southwest. In the northwest, the plate reaches its highest point south of the village Romaniw ( Романів ), Peremyschljany Rajon , located about 30 km southeast of Lviv , with the 471.9 m high Kamula ( ⊙ ) mountain .
The low mountain-like landscape of Podolian plate is characterized by hilly and mountainous areas, pass through the partially canyon-like and strongly meandering river valleys. It mainly consists of several hundred meters thick limestone layers of marine sediments from the ancient Paratethys sea , which have been deposited here over millions of years from the geological formation of the Jura to well into the Miocene . These layers come to light in many places on the steep slopes of the river valleys and are a varied interruption of the often monotonous but gentle landscape. In the course of time, the top layer of the Podolian Plate, the largest contiguous area of gypsum karst on earth , karstified through the action of ground and surface water, and a particularly large number of gypsum caves formed in the karst . The best known of these caves is the Optymistytschna Cave, the second longest cave on earth with a passage length of 215 km.
The following parts belong to the Podolian plate: Lemberg plate, Peremyschlany lowlands, Opillja , Holohory-Kremenez mountain ridge (Holohory, Voronjaky, Kremenezer Bergland ), Avratyn highlands, Towtry (Podolische Towtry [Medobory], Prut-Dnister Towtry, Murafa- Towtry), Transdnistrian highlands.
The largest city in the area is Lviv , located in the northwestern foothills of the highlands . Other important cities in the landscape or on its fringes are: Khmelnytskyi , Kamianets-Podilskyi , Rîbnița , Ternopil , Tultschyn and Vinnytsia .
See also
literature
- W. Teisseyre: The paleozoic eyrie of Podolia and the subsidence fields surrounding it. In: Contributions to the palaeontology and geology of Austria-Hungary and the Orient. Messages from the geology. Volume 15, Lemberg, March 1903, pp. 101–129 (PDF) .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Topographic map (1: 100.000, Bl. M-35-73, Ed. 1985), part in the north-west of the Podolian Plate (about center left to right below) and a. with Lemberg (center left) and Romaniw (center right bottom), on mapm35.narod.ru (with heights above sea level ).
Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 39 ″ N , 27 ° 51 ′ 22.3 ″ E