On the correlation of Paleocene and Eocene sediments within the Salgir-Alma interfluve and on the development of the Crimean structure in the Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene time.

Abstract

Paleocene and Eocene sediments participate in the structure of the northwestern wing of the Crimean meganticlinorium. Nummulitic clays, marls and limestones of the Eocene crown the Second Ridge of the Crimean Mountains almost all along its length from Sevastopol Bay to Simferopol. Eocene sediments in the southwestern part of the Second Ridge lie on Paleocene sediments, and towards Simferopol they pass to more and more ancient sediments of the Upper Cretaceous. In the immediate vicinity of Simferopol, in the left side of the Salgir valley, the Eocene rocks lie already on the Turonian and Cenomanian marls, and at the watershed of the Salgir and Little Salgir - even on the Middle Jurassic sediments.