Publications

Quaternary geology and origin of the Shirak Basin, NW Armenia

Keywords: Basin Quaternary Volcanic rocks Armenia
Title of journal: Quaternary International
Year: 2019 Volume: 509 Pages: 41-61

Author: Eugenia Shalaeva, Vladimir Trifonov, Vladimir Lebedev, A.N. Simakova, Ara Avagyan, Other autors

Environmental and geodynamic settings of the earliest hominin migration to the Arabian-Caucasus region: A review

Keywords: Geoarchaeology Oldowan Early Acheulian Neotectonics Mountain building Small mammals Palynology Paleoenvironment
Title of journal: Quaternary International
Year: 2019 Volume: 534 Pages: 116-137

Author: Vladimir Trifonov, Alexandra N. Simakova, Dmitry M. Bachmanov, Alexey Tesakov,

Modern Horizontal Movements in the Zones of Strong and Moderate Earthquakes of the Early 21st Century in the Central Sector of the Greater Caucasus: Characteristics Inferred from GPS Observations and Connection with Neotectonics and Deep Structure of the Earth’s Crust

Keywords: earthquake Earth’s crust geodynamics GPS point Greater Caucasus satellite geodesy seismotectonics
Title of journal: Izvestiya - Atmospheric and Ocean Physics
Year: 2019 Volume: 55 Pages: 759-769

Author: Evgeny Rogozhin, Vadim Milyukov, A. P. Mironov, A. N. Ovsyuchenko, Andrey Gorbatikov, Other autors

Nonlinear dynamics of crustal blocks and faults and earthquake occurrences in the Transcaucasian region

Keywords: Caucasus Crustal block Dynamics Earthquake Fault slip Numerical modeling Transcaucasia
Title of journal: Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors
Year: 2019 Volume: 297

Author: Inessa Vorobieva, Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Alexander Gorshkov,

Focused erosion at the core of the Greater Caucasus: Sediment generation and dispersal from Mt. Elbrus to the Caspian Sea

Keywords: Sedimentary petrography and heavy minerals Channel steepness and erosion rates Debris flows and glacial-lake outburst floods Provenance and sediment budgets Sand generation index SGI Elbrus and Kazbek volcanoes Baksan and Terek rivers
Title of journal: Earth-Science Reviews
Year: 2020 Volume: 200

Author: Giovanni Vezzoli, Eduardo Garzanti, Mara Limonta, Giuditta Radeff,

Contrasting Pliocene fluvial depositional systems within the rapidly subsiding South Caspian Basin; a case study of the palaeo-Volga and palaeo-Kura river systems in the Surakhany Suite, Upper Productive Series, onshore Azerbaijan

Keywords: South Caspian Basin Surakhany Suite Productive Series Fluvial sedimentology Azerbaijan Pliocene Palynology Pollen Dinocysts Petrophysical properties
Title of journal: Marine and Petroleum Geology
Year: 2010 Volume: 28 Pages: 1-25

Author: Stephen Vincent, Clare Davies, Keith Richards, Elmira Aliyeva,

Using fluorescence microscopy to discern in situ from reworked palynomorphs in dynamic depositional environments — An example from sediments of the late Miocene to early Pleistocene Caspian Sea

Keywords: Caspian Sea Fluorescence microscopy Pliocene Productive Series Taphonomy Delta Reworking
Title of journal: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
Year: 2018 Volume: 256 Pages: 32-49

Author: Thomas M. Hoyle, Suzanne A.G. Leroy, Lourdes López-Merino, Keith Richards,

Palynology and micropalaeontology of the Pliocene - Pleistocene transition in outcrop from the western Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan: Potential links with the Mediterranean, Black Sea and the Arctic Ocean?

Keywords: Palynology Pliocene - Pleistocene transition western Caspian Sea Azerbaijan
Title of journal: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Year: 2018 Volume: 511 Pages: 119-143

Author: Keith Richards, Christiaan G.C. van Baak, John Athersuch, Thomas M. Hoyle, Marius Stoica, Other autors

Vegetation succession and climate change across the Plio-Pleistocene transition in eastern Azerbaijan, central Eurasia (2.77–2.45 Ma)

Keywords: Palynology Taphonomy Milankovitch forcing Obliquity Caspian sea 40Ar/39Ar geochronology
Title of journal: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Year: 2019 Volume: 538

Author: Thomas M. Hoyle, Suzanne A.G. Leroy, Lourdes Lόpez-Merino, Daniel P. Miggins, Anthony A.P. Koppers,

Active Stress Field and Fault Kinematics of the Greater Caucasus

Keywords: Caucasus Stress field Seismicity Active fault Focal mechanisms
Title of journal: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
Year: 2020 Volume: 188 Pages: 1-18

Author: Alessandro Tibaldi, Nino Tsereteli, Otar Varazanashvili, Gulam Babayev, A. Barth, Other autors