The number and area of alpine lakes in Tien Shan (TS) are rapidly growing response to a warming climate retreating glaciers. This paper presents comparative analysis lake classification changes by dividing (within 10 km buffer the glacier margins) into four types (supraglacial lakes, proglacial extraglacial non-glacial lakes), subsequently determining driving forces change across TS region from...

Introduction. This work is devoted to the assessment of Upper Paleolithic sites Northern Tien Shan. Materials and methods. Plains foothills Kazakhstan occupies a large western part Central Asia stretches from Caspian Sea in west Altai Mountains east. There are many sites, vast majority which open-air (surface) sites. Recently several multilayer have been discovered Among them Maibulak, Rakhat, ...

The review contains information on paleogenomic studies of the plague pathogen, Yersinia pestis , covering prehistoric epoch, periods first and second pandemics, epidemics outbreaks late XIX–XX centuries. We have summarized data reconstruction ancient Y. genomes Late Neolithic, Bronze Iron Ages, Justinian Plague epidemic pandemic, Black Death subsequent pandemic XIV–XVIII centuries, as well tra...

We have studied geometries and rates of late Cenozoic thrust faulting and folding along the northern piedmont of the Tien Shan mountain belt, West of Urumqi, where the M=8.3 Manas earthquake occurred on December 23, 1906. The northern range of the Tien Shan, rising above 5000 m, overthrusts a flexural foredeep, filled with up to II ,000 m of sediment, of the Dzungarian basement. Our fieldwork r...

The alignment of the products of very high energy interactions seen in mountain altitude experiments is one of the most puzzling phenomena in cosmic ray physics for quite a long time. The observations of the Pamir and Chacaltaya emulsion chamber groups and by the Tien-Shan extensive air shower experiment, together with a very clear event seen in the Concorde French– Japanese experiment in the s...