Dunits of Vasil'evo - Shaitanskay dacha in the Urals

Abstract

Shaitanskaya dacha is located on the very ridge of the southern part of the Middle Urals, included in the 138th sheet of the general geological map of Russia. From the south, the dacha is washed by the Chusovaya River, which serves as a natural border with the Revdinskaya dacha; Bilimbaevskaya dacha is adjacent to the north and west, and from the east Verkh-Isetskaya. The western chain consists of separate mountains: “Volchikha” and three “Magnetic” ones. The first is composed of gabbro, and the rest of amphibolites. The eastern chain, known as the “Crests”, is a purely serpentine ridge, in the very center of which there are outcrops of primary igneous rocks of ultrabasic magma: dunites, pyroxenites interconnected by transitional rocks. Let us classify dunites into the oline subgroup (see article).