GREAT CAUCASUS IN THE CAUCASUS SYSTEM AND ORE PROCESSES (on the example of Gorny Dagestan)
In the proposed article, sedimentation, folding, the formation of source rocks enriched during sedimentation, the productive (hydrothermal) stage of ore genesis is associated with collisional efforts caused by the subduction of the Arabian plate under the Scythian plate, which took place in the Caucasus in a polychronous mode. The polychronous mode of manifestation of collisional processes was provoked by the tip of the Arabian plate protruding to the north, opposite which the formation of the modern geological structure of the Caucasus began, which gradually covered the northwestern and southeastern parts. The industrial value of ore objects was entirely determined by the "bulk" of the ore traps formed during folding, in which ore minerals were deposited from the originating ore source rocks of hydrothermal solutions. The "bulk" of ore traps depended on their confinement to certain areas where they were formed.