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The Central Siberian Plateau (Russian: Среднесибирское плоскогорье, romanized: Srednesibirskoye ploskogorye; Yakut: Орто Сибиир хаптал хайалаах сирэ, romanized: Orto Sibîr xaptal xayalâx sire) is a vast mountainous area in Siberia, one of the Great Russian Regions.
Major geographical zones within Siberia include the West Siberian Plain and the Central Siberian Plateau. Eastern and central Sakha comprises numerous north–south mountain ranges of various ages. These mountains extend up to almost 3,000 metres (9,800 ft), but above a few hundred metres they are almost completely devoid of vegetation.
North Siberian Lowland, a plain with a relatively flat relief separating the Byrranga Mountains of the Taymyr Peninsula in the north from the Central Siberian Plateau in the south. Area approximately 400,000 km 2 (150,000 sq mi). [6]
The region directly east of the West Siberian Plain is the Central Siberian Plateau, which extends eastward from the Yenisei River valley to the Lena River valley. The region is divided into several plateaus , with elevations ranging between 320 and 740 metres (1,050 and 2,430 ft); the highest elevation is about 1,800 metres (5,900 ft), in the ...
A sample of Siberian Traps basalt (dark) containing native iron (from Siberian Traps) Image 27 A Nenets family in Novaya Zemlya (from Indigenous peoples of Siberia ) Image 28 An ethnographic map of 16th-century Siberia , made in the Russian Empire period, between 1890 and 1907 (from Indigenous peoples of Siberia )
Landforms of Siberia — in central and eastern Russia. ... South Siberian Mountains (5 C, 41 P) U. ... West Siberian Plain (4 C, 51 P) Pages in category "Landforms ...
In Asiatic Russia, the area between the Ural Mountains and the Yenisei River is the young West Siberian Plain. East of the Yenisei River is the ancient Central Siberian Plateau, extending to the Lena River. East of the Lena River there is the Verhoyansk-Chukotka collision zone, stretching to the Chukchi Peninsula.
Siberia, also known as Siberian Craton, Angaraland (or simply Angara) and Angarida, [1] is an ancient craton in the heart of Siberia. Today forming the Central Siberian Plateau , it formed an independent landmass prior to its fusion into Pangea during the Late Carboniferous - Permian .