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Foreign scientists interested in Crimean cave


29.07.2020

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Foreign experts have shown great interest in the Crimean Tavrida cave, said Gennady Samokhin, who heads the Russian Union of Cavers and is leading a project to study the cave. However, the priority in scientific work is given to Russian scientists, RIA Novosti reports.

Many paleontologists from abroad note that they would like to come to Crimea to do research. At the moment, cooperation with Austrian colleagues in various areas is being actively promoted.

Nevertheless, Gennady Samokhin expressed confidence that Russian scientists are able to independently carry out research work at the international level. Foreign specialists will be invited, but on the basis of partnership, not domination, he concluded.

The karst cave was found during the construction of the Tavrida federal highway in Crimea. It is the largest in the Crimea foothill. During the descent, cavers found the remains of mammoths or their predecessors - mastodons. Their age, according to preliminary data, is up to 100,000 years. There are also many split tubular bones. Perhaps this is the result of human activity.

The cave was formed as a result of long-term processes of the impact of pressurized groundwater. Long underground galleries connect labyrinths of passages. Now there is no water there. The height of the galleries varies from six to twelve meters, the width is four to five meters, the floor is flat and clayey. The entrance to the cave is a well fourteen meters deep.

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