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Disjunctive Dislocations in Upper Cretaceous Rocks on the Northeastern Slope of the Chufut-Kale Plateau (Bakhchisarai District, Crimea)

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This paper describes fracture and low-amplitude fault systems in Upper Cretaceous deposits in the vicinity of the Chufut-Kale “cave town.” Analysis of the orientations and kinematics of the faults and fracture parageneses has made it possible to reconstruct stress-fields of the Alpine tectonic stage and their rough order. An assumption on the appearance of sublatitudinal compression in Mountainous Crimea has been made.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author is grateful to graduate student V.A. Fedorchuk for assistance in collecting and documenting the field data; Dr. Sci. Geol. Min., Professor A.M. Nikishin for helpful advice; and Cand. Geol. Min. Sci., Associate Professor T.Yu. Tveritinova and Cand. Sci. Geol. Min. Sci., Associate Professor N.N. Kurdin for their interest in this study and constructive comments.

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Fokin, P.A. Disjunctive Dislocations in Upper Cretaceous Rocks on the Northeastern Slope of the Chufut-Kale Plateau (Bakhchisarai District, Crimea). Moscow Univ. Geol. Bull. 78, 462–471 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0145875223040063

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