Tien-Shan seismogen (TSS) is the modern mobile macro-fissure structural heterogeneity of lithosphere within which geodynamical processes occur accompanying intensive tectonic movements in earth’s crust and seismic phenomena [10]. The TSS distinguished as a whole formation area joint structure Urals Western Siberia with structures Central Asia by means complex interpretation analysis range mater...

A paleomagnetic study of rocks from the northern foot of the Tien Shan and the southern border of the Dzungar Basin, east of Urumqi (44.2°N, 86.0°E), spanning ages from middle Jurassic to early Tertiary was carried out to constrain the tectonic evolution in central Asia since Mesozoic time. Five middle Jurassic sites reveal a remagnetized direction close to the present Earth field in geographic...

Snow meltwaters account for most of the yearly water budgets of many catchments in High Mountain Asia (HMA). We examine trends in snow water equivalent (SWE) using passive microwave data (1987 to 2009). We find an overall decrease in SWE in HMA, despite regions of increased SWE in the Pamir, Kunlun Shan, Eastern Himalaya, and Eastern Tien Shan. Although the average decline in annual SWE across ...

The Tien Shan of Kyrgyzstan contains multiple moraines and drift from late Quaternary glaciations. The spatial/temporal distribution of the glaciers inferred from the moraines suggests that the main factor controlling glacier advance here was the availability of moisture. The dominant modern climatic signatures in northern Central Asia include orographic thunderstorms in summer, cold and dry Si...

Introduction. Available information on the occurrences of high alkaline magmatic rocks fixing position western flanks southern branches (Gobi Altai and Gobi Tien-Shan) Central Asian Late Paleozoic continental rift system in territory North-West Chingiz (the eastern part Kazakhstan), Kendyktas-Chu-Ili-Bet-Pak-Dal uranium-bearing province Southern Kazakhstan Chatkal-Naryn zone Tien-Shan (Uzbekist...

Well-preserved, actively deforming folds in the Tien Shan of Kyrgyzstan provide a natural laboratory for the study of the evolution of thrust-related folds. The uplifted limbs of these folds comprise weakly indurated Cenozoic strata that mantle well-lithified Palaeozoic bedrock. Their contact is a regionally extensive unconformity that provides a persistent and readily traceable marker horizon....