The Khentei Range ( rus, Хэнтэй) is a
mountain range
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...
in the
Transbaikal
Transbaikal, Trans-Baikal, Transbaikalia ( rus, Забайка́лье, r=Zabaykalye, p=zəbɐjˈkalʲjɪ), or Dauria (, ''Dauriya'') is a mountainous region to the east of or "beyond" (trans-) Lake Baikal in Far Eastern Russia.
The steppe and ...
Region (Zabaykalsky Krai) of
Siberia
Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part o ...
,
Russia
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.
The range is part of the
Trans-Baikal conifer forests ecoregion
An ecoregion (ecological region) or ecozone (ecological zone) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than a biogeographic realm. Ecoregions cover relatively large areas o ...
. The
Sokhondo Nature Reserve is located in the area of the range.
Geography
The Khentei Range is part of the
Khentei-Daur Highlands,
South Siberian System
The South Siberian Mountains ( rus, Южно-Сибирские горы) are one of the largest mountain systems of the Russian Federation. The total area of the system of mountain ranges is more than 1.5 million km². The South Siberian Mountain ...
. It rises on the right bank of the upper course of the
Ingoda River and stretches roughly northeastwards for over until the source of the
Bylir River, where it joins with the
Stanovik Range. The maximum width of the range is . Its southern spurs connect with the
Onon-Baldzhin Range and in the west with the
Pereval Range.
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The predominant summits of the Khentei Range reach between and . The highest point is high Mount
Golets Sokhondo, a
‘’golets’’-type of mountain with a bald peak. Other important peaks are Buryktyn-Yang () and Uluri Golets (). The relief is marked by a strong degree of horizontal and vertical dissection with numerous
faults.
Scree
Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of a cliff or other steep rocky mass that has accumulated through periodic rockfall. Landforms associated with these materials are often called talus deposits. Talus deposits typically ha ...
slopes and
cliff
In geography and geology, a cliff is an area of rock which has a general angle defined by the vertical, or nearly vertical. Cliffs are formed by the processes of weathering and erosion, with the effect of gravity. Cliffs are common on ...
s are common throughout the range. In some places there are traces of
Pleistocene glaciation
The Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Pleistocene glaciation, is an alternating series of glacial and interglacial periods during the Quaternary period that began 2.58 Ma (million years ago) and is ongoing. Although geologists describe ...
and lakes of glacial origin.
Flora
The slopes of the range are covered with mountain
taiga
Taiga (; rus, тайга́, p=tɐjˈɡa; relates to Mongolic and Turkic languages), generally referred to in North America as a boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces ...
and pre-Alpine forest. The higher elevations have
dwarf cedar
''Pinus sibirica'', or Siberian pine, in the family Pinaceae is a species of pine tree that occurs in Siberia from 58°E in the Ural Mountains east to 126°E in the Stanovoy Range in southern Sakha Republic, and from Igarka at 68°N in the lowe ...
shrub and are often crowned by ''"golets"'' type bare and largely rocky summits.
See also
*
Sokhondo Nature Reserve
References
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Mountain ranges of Russia
Khentei-Daur Highlands