The Azov-Donets Upland - a heterogeneous Cenozoic morphostructure

Abstract

In spite of the structural difference between the Donets Ridge and the Azov crystalline massif as well as different history of their formation, they form a single upland without marked division. Paleogeographic data corroborate this thesis: an upland within the same limits existed throughout the whole Cenozoic time. The unity composed of the Donets Ridge and the Azov massif has not been broken in spite of epeirogenic movements.