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Diluvium is an archaic term applied during the 1800s to widespread surficial deposits of sediments that could not be explained by the historic action of rivers and seas. Diluvium was initially argued to have been deposited by the action of extraordinary floods of vast extent, specifically the Noachian Flood .
In 1839, geologist Roderick Murchison [3] introduced the term drift to describe unconsolidated surficial sediments previously called diluvium.The term drift refers to the drift hypothesis proposed by Charles Lyell, [4] as influenced by contemporary polar research, that these sediments had been transported by sea ice and icebergs drifting in marine currents.
This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Russia. European Russia. Name Elevation (m) Elevation (ft) Coordinates Area Last eruption Kazbek: 5033: 16,512
The Siberian Traps (Russian: Сибирские траппы, romanized: Sibirskiye trappy) are a large region of volcanic rock, known as a large igneous province, in Siberia, Russia. The massive eruptive event that formed the traps is one of the largest known volcanic events in the last 500 million years.
Altai Mountains, Russia [ edit ] Another area where Giant current ripples are an important landscape feature is in the Altai Mountains, Russia [ 3 ] At least seven major floods are believed to have happened in this area over a span of 150,000 years during Marine Isotope Stage 2 , or the latter part of the last glaciation .
The Batagaika crater (russian: Батагайский кратер) is a thermokarst depression in the Chersky Range area. [1] The largest permafrost crater in the world, [2] it administratively belongs to the Sakha Republic, Russia, [1] and is in its Verkhoyansky District.
In 2010, Saint Petersburg Mining Institute held a scientific conference "Patom Crater 2010". Viktor Sergeyevich Antipin, head of a department at the St. Petersburg Institute of Geochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IG SB RAS), stated that "Since the 2006 expedition by the Institute of Geochemistry (IGC), RAS came to the conclusion that the Patomskiy crater probably originates from ...
The Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3 (Russian: Кольская сверхглубокая скважина СГ-3, romanized: Kol'skaya sverkhglubokaya skvazhina SG-3) is the deepest human-made hole on Earth (since 1979), which attained maximum true vertical depth of 12,262 metres (40,230 ft; 7.619 mi) in 1989. [1]