The relic cryogenic microrelief in the basin of the Upper Volga

Abstract

A typical relic hillock-hollow microrelief is discovered on the North of the Yaroslavi region. It is clearly distinct on aero-photographs of the scales 1:15000-1:5000. Topographical works disclosed a system of hillocks and hollows 15-25 metres in size with hillocks rising over hollows by 2 metres. Geological section in lowering of microrelief revealed specific structures which are interpreted as traces of melted and later on filled glacial veins. By the sum of geomorphological signs the hillock - hollow microrelief is determined as the remaining system of the cryogenic genesis. This relic microrelief concludes a genetically unique chain of formations: grounds-blocks-hillocks in the general series of forms of relic cryogenic morphosculpture.