{"id":118,"date":"2016-10-28T16:59:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T14:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2017-06-14T12:12:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T10:12:49","slug":"the-greater-caucasus-geology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/the-greater-caucasus-geology\/","title":{"rendered":"Caucasus Tectonics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"WRchTxtv-rpx\" class=\"wysiwyg_viewer_skins_WRichTextNewSkintxtNew\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-339\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/UNIFR.png\" alt=\"unifr\" width=\"121\" height=\"84\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-337\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/FNS-300x77.png\" alt=\"fns\" width=\"177\" height=\"46\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/FNS-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/FNS.png 442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Caucasus, including the <strong>Greater Caucasus<\/strong> and the <strong>Lesser Caucasus<\/strong>, is one of the world\u2019s outstanding natural geodynamic laboratories. For the last 10 million years the <strong>Greater Caucasus<\/strong> mountain belt has been shaped due to the interaction of surface processes and tectonic processes at depth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">High rates of uplift have contributed to create Europe\u2019s highest mountains \u2013 with summits such as <strong>Mt Elbrus (5642m)<\/strong> or <strong>Mt. Ararat (5165m)<\/strong> \u2013 at the cross-road of Europe and Asia. The tectonic activity, expressed by numerous important thrusts and strike-slip faults, is also the cause of an important earthquake activity. The mountain belt is flanked by some of the world\u2019s most prominent hydrocarbon provinces such as the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, making it an area of high geostrategic importance.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/caucasus-tectonics\/\"><strong>Greater Caucasus Tectonics<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/greater-caucasus-ongoing-developments\"><strong>Greater Caucasus Ongoing Developments<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/caucasus-projects\/\"><strong>Greater Caucasus Projects<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/caucasus-team\/\"><strong>Greater Caucasus Research Teams<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/caucasus-pictures\/\"><strong>Greater Caucasus Pictures<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/caucasus-maps\/\"><strong>Greater Caucasus Maps<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Caucasus, including the Greater Caucasus and the Lesser Caucasus, is one of the world\u2019s outstanding natural geodynamic laboratories. For the last 10 million years the Greater Caucasus mountain belt has been shaped due to the interaction of surface processes and tectonic processes at depth. High rates of uplift have contributed to create Europe\u2019s highest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/the-greater-caucasus-geology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Caucasus Tectonics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unifr.ch\/tectonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}