earth science

Suntar-Khayata Range

Suntar-Khayata Range is a earth science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Suntar-Khayata Range rather than just read about it. In short: Suntar-Khayata Range (Russian: Сунтар-Хаята, Yakut: Сунтаар Хайата) is a granite mountain range rising along the border of the Sakha Republic in the north with Amur Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai in the south. The R504 Kolyma Highway passes through the northern part of the range by Kyubeme.

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Reference excerpt

Suntar-Khayata Range (Russian: Сунтар-Хаята, Yakut: Сунтаар Хайата) is a granite mountain range rising along the border of the Sakha Republic in the north with Amur Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai in the south. The R504 Kolyma Highway passes through the northern part of the range by Kyubeme.

Geography The Suntar-Khayata is approximately 450–550 km long and 60 km wide. 2,959 metres (9,708 ft) high Mus-Khaya Mountain, located in the Sakha Republic, is the highest point of the range. Berill Mountain, at 2,933 metres (9,623 ft) is the highest summit in Khabarovsk Krai. Mount Khakandya (Гора Хакандя) is an ultra-prominent peak that is 2,615 metres (8,579 ft) high. The Suntar-Khayata Range is geographically a southeastern prolongation of the Verkhoyansk Range. Until mid 20th century it was treated as a separate range, together with the Skalisty Range, highest point 2,017 metres (6,617 ft), and the Sette Daban, highest point 2,017 metres (6,617 ft), to the southwest. The Yudoma-Maya Highlands are located to the south of the range and the Upper Kolyma Highlands to the northeast.

Subranges The Suntar-Khayata system comprises a number of subranges, including the Khalkan Range, Net-Taga Range, Yudoma Range and Kukhtuy Range.

Hydrography The Suntar-Khayata is a watershed divide between the Aldan River, of the Lena basin, and the Indigirka —both of the Arctic Ocean, and the Sea of Okhotsk. Some of the major watercourses having their source in the range are the Tyry, Eastern Khandyga, Tompo, Allakh-Yun and Yudoma belonging to the Lena basin, the Khastakh, Kuydusun and Taryn-Yuryakh to the Indigirka basin, the Kulu of the Kolyma River basin, while the Okhota, Ulbeya, Inya, Kukhtuy and Yana flow into the Sea of Okhotsk. The range includes the southernmost glaciers in the Russian Far East outside of Kamchatka. Their status is not known.

Geology The strata of this geological formation date back to the Late Jurassic. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.

Flora and fauna The higher slopes of the range are sparsely wooded, with mainly larch forests and tundra. A small population of Brown Dippers (Cinclus pallasi) winters at a hot spring in the Suntar-Khayata Range. The birds feed underwater when air temperatures drop below −55 °C (−67 °F).

Vertebrate paleofauna Indeterminate Carnosauria remains, possible indeterminate Coelurosaur remains, indeterminate Sauropoda remains that had been previously referred to Camarasauridae indet, and indeterminate Theropoda remains have all been recovered from Suntar outcrops in Sakha Republic, Russia.

See also Lists of dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic units List of ultras of Northeast Asia Oymyakon Highlands

Notes

External links Media related to Suntar-Khayata Zakaznik at Wikimedia Commons

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Suntar-Khayata Range

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Suntar-Khayata Range claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In earth science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Suntar-Khayata Range before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Suntar-Khayata Range ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Suntar-Khayata Range

In research: Suntar-Khayata Range appears in earth science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Suntar-Khayata Range in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Suntar-Khayata Range is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Geology of Russia, Jurassic paleontological sites, Paleontological site stubs, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Suntar-Khayata Range outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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