The Iomrautvaam (; ) is a river in

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. The length of the river is and the area of is

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. The Iomrautvaam is the longest tributary of the Khatyrka river.

Course

The Iomrautvaam has its source in the Komeutyuyam Range of the Koryak Highlands. It flows in a roughly northeastern direction in the northern section of the range. Finally it meets the right bank of the Khatyrka from its mouth, close to the northeastern end of the ridge.Atlas of Russia
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Khatyrka meteorite

The Khatyrka meteorite, a unique-type of

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fell in the area of the Iomrautvaam river basin at . It was found during an expedition to Chukotka in the summer of 2011 buried in a 7,000-year-old layer of dirt and was named Khatyrka meteorite.

Flora and fauna

The river basin is characterized by

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vegetation, including

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es,

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s, dwarf shrubs, and

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s.V. Yu. Neshataeva, ''Vegetation cover of the North of the Kamchatka Okrug (Kamchatsky Krai) and its geobotanical zoning'' // Ecology and geography of plants and plant communities: Proceedings of the IV International Scientific Conference. - Yekaterinburg, 2018. - April 16. — ISBN 978-5-7741-0341-6

References

External links

Astronomy.com - An old meteor yields a new surprise: a never-before-seen materialCollisions in outer space produced an icosahedral phase in the Khatyrka meteorite never observed previously in the laboratoryThe Penzhina-West Kamchatka folded zone and the Ukelayat-Sredinnyi block in the structure of the Koryak Highland and Kamchatka
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Course

Khatyrka meteorite

Flora and fauna

See also

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