Geological excursion guide book on western Georgia upper jurassic and cretaceous sediments / Путеводитель по геологической экскурсии по верхнеюрским и меловым отложениям Западной Грузии

The Republic of Georgia encompasses pan of the Alpine Himalayan fold belt; it extends from the northern slope of the Greater Caucasus to the Lesser Caucasus in the south, a geologically complex zone sandwiched between two lithospheric plates, the Afro-Arabian (Gondwana) and the Eurasian plates. More specifically it consists of the Greater Caucasus Range

to the north and the Transcaucasus to the south (Fig.l). The sutured boundary (the Sevan-Акега zone) lying between the Transcaucasus and the Lesser Caucasus to the south is effectively the northern margin of Gondwana. The northern boundary, between the Caucasus Mountains (sensu stricto) and the Scythian Platform, the southerly projection of the Russian Platform, is less clearly defined due to the superposition or panial superposition... <...>