About the geological structure of the Southern Urals

Abstract

According to its geological structure, the Southern Urals can be divided into three parts: western, central and eastern, elongated along strike. The main objective of this essay is to raise a number of general issues - the division of the Southern Urals, continental Devonian deposits, the section diagram and give a brief description of the main facies and horizons of the southwestern Urals. The essay is a preface, an introduction to a number of works related to the five-verst survey of the Urals, carried out by the Geological Committee. These works should be widely developed over the next five years, and their results, of course, will change and supplement the data presented in the essay.