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Karst Relief Development History of Zemo Imereti Plateau, Georgia, Caucasus
Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography, TSU, Tbilisi, Georgia
Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography, TSU, Tbilisi, Georgia
Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography, TSU, Tbilisi, Georgia
School of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography, TSU, Tbilisi, Georgia
Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography, TSU, Tbilisi, Georgia
- 1 Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography, TSU, Tbilisi, Georgia
- 2 Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography, TSU, Tbilisi, Georgia
- 3 Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography, TSU, Tbilisi, Georgia
- 4 School of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
- 5 Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography, TSU, Tbilisi, Georgia
- 6 Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography, TSU, Tbilisi, Georgia
Open Journal of Geology·Volume 09 (2019)·Pages 201–212·Published 5 March 2019·DOI10.4236/ojg.2019.93014
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Abstract
The history of karst terrestrial development has been restored on the background of many years’ field, experimental and laboratory researches (underground water tracing, structural deciphering of aerophotocytes, analysis of boreholes and geological wounds) and analysis of the current literary sources carried out by us in the Zemo Imereti Plateau. Within the study area, karst and karst forms of the Jurassic-Cretaceous, Lower Tertiary (Paleocene-Eocene) and Post-Miocene (Sarmati) period were revealed. Lithobiostratigraphic analysis of cave subterranean sediments enabled us to identify the cave age. In Zemo Imereti Plateau, in the caves located on higher hypsometric levels, the sedimentation of subterranean sediments began in the Middle-Upper Pleistocene and it seemed that the caves’ formation was mainly completed in the mentioned territory.
KeywordsKarstCavePlateauZemo ImeretiGeorgia
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