Figure 1. Geological map of the Elbrus stratovolcano, scale 1: 50 000, compiled in 2002 by V.M.
Gazeev and A.G. Gurbanov (Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and
Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Science).
Legend to the map: (1-2) moraines and fluvioglacial
deposits: (1) historical and recent, (2a) Late Pleistocene, (2b) Early-Middle Pleistocene, (3) dammed lake
deposits, (4) planation surface with relicts of a moraine and fluvioglacial deposits of Pleistocene age,
(5-17) volcanic rocks: (5) Late Holocene trachydacite, (6) Early Holocene dacite and trachydacite, (7) Late
Pleistocene-Holocene tuff and tufflava, (8, 9) Middle and Late Pleistocene lava flows, (10-17) caldera
volcanic rocks: (10) Kyukyurtly extrusion, (11) small extrusive bodies, (12) lava flows, (13) tuff breccia
and slag, (14-16) Early Pleistocene: (14) tufflava, tuff, and pumice; (15) rhyodacite lava and agglomerate
flows, (16) ignimbrite and tuff of rhyodacite and dacite composition, (17) Late Pliocene ignimbrite and tuff
of rhyodacite composition, (18-23) the rocks of the volcanic basement: (18) Lower Jurassic gravelstone, sandstone,
and siltstone; (19) Middle Paleozoic volcanic and volcano-sedimentary rocks, (20) Middle Paleozoic crystalline schist,
(21) Late Paleozoic granite, (22) crystalline schist and gneiss of the Makera Series, (23) migmatite; (24) necks,
(25) felsite porphyry dike, (26) volcanic crater, (27) outline of relict planation surface, (28) outline of erosion
window, (29) dip and strike: (a) dip of rocks, (b) flow direction, (30) geological boundaries: (1) proved,
(2) inferred), (3) unexposed, (31) sites of hydrothermal activity: (a) of magnesite composition, (b) of siliceous-aluminous
and siliceous composition: (1) found in situ, (2) fragments slightly removed from the source,
(32) Argillization, (33) The sections along the lines I-I, II-II, III-III;
Names in the map: (1) Biitik-Tebe Glacier, (2) Ulluchir, Karachul, and Ullu-Kam glaciers,
(3) Mikelchiran, Irikchat, and Irik glaciers, (4) Terskol, Garbashi, and AZLU Malyi Glacier,
(5) AZLU Bolshoi Glacier,
(6) Kyukyurtli Mt., (7) Elbrus M., (8) Dzhikauchekkez Snow Valley.
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