Suntar-Khayata Range (russian: Сунтар-Хаята, sah, Сунтаар Хайата) is a granite mountain range rising along the border of the

Sakha Republic Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far Eas ...

in the north with Amur Oblast and

Khabarovsk Krai Khabarovsk Krai ( rus, Хабаровский край, r=Khabarovsky kray, p=xɐˈbarəfskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia. It is geographically located in the Russian Far East and is a part of the Far Eastern Federal District ...

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. high Mus-Khaya Mountain, located in the Sakha Republic, is the highest point of the range.DMGN. Suntar-Khayata
/ref> Berill Mountain, at is the highest summit in Khabarovsk Krai. Mount Khakandya (Гора Хакандя) is an ultra-prominent peak that is high.Siberia, 26 Mountain Summits with Prominence of 1,500 meters or greater
/ref> 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 , and the Sette Daban, highest point , to the southwest. The Yudoma-Maya Highlands are located to the south of the rangeСунтар-Хаята
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/ Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov. - 3rd ed. - M. Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. 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 The Indigirka ( rus, Индиги́рка, r=; sah, Индигиир, translit=Indigiir) is a river in the Sakha Republic in Russia between the Yana (river), Yana to the west and the Kolyma River, Kolyma to the east. It is long. The area of its ...

—both of the Arctic Ocean, and the

Sea of Okhotsk The Sea of Okhotsk ( rus, Охо́тское мо́ре, Ohótskoye móre ; ja, オホーツク海, Ohōtsuku-kai) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It is located between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands ...

. Some of the major watercourses having their source in the range are the Tyry, Tompo,

Allakh-Yun Allakh-Yun (russian: Алла́х-Юнь; sah, Ааллаах Үүн) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Ust-Maysky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located from Ust-Maya, the administrative center of the district,''Regi ...

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."Global glacier changes: facts and figures: Northern Asia"
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the original
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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.Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Jurassic, Asia)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 550–552. .

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 .

Vertebrate paleofauna

Indeterminate Carnosauria remains, possible indeterminate Coelurosaur remains, indeterminate Sauropoda remains that had been previously referred to Camarasauridae indet, and indeterminate

Theropoda Theropoda (; ), whose members are known as theropods, is a dinosaur clade that is characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb. Theropods are generally classed as a group of saurischian dinosaurs. They were ancestrally ca ...

remains have all been recovered from Suntar outcrops in

, Russia.

Notes

External links

* Geology of Russia Jurassic paleontological sites {{paleo-site-stub