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GEOLOGISTS will be glad to hear of the appearance of the first sheet of the “Geological Survey of Russia,” published by the Geological Committee on the scale of to versts to an inch. It comprises nearly the whole of the Government of Yaroslav and the eastern parts of Tver, between 57° 0′ and 57° 42′ N. lat., and 43° 10′ to 47° 40′ E. long., corresponding thus to Sheet 56 of the General Staff Map of Russia. This region, which is watered by the Upper Volga, the Mologa, and the Sheksna, is an undulating plain, the highest points of which, close to Bejetsk, reach 700 feet above the sea-level, gently sloping east and west to a level of from 350 to 420 feet. It has been dealt with first on account of a series of geological explorations which have already been made within its limits. It was visited by Blasius, Mur-chison, Keyserling, and Barbot-de-Marny, and careful explorations have been undertaken during the last few years within the limits of the province of Yaroslav, under the direction of its Provincial Assembly and Statistical Committee, by MM. Schurovsky, Piktorsky, Eremeyeff, Dittmar, Kryloff, and Nikitin.
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The New Geological Map of Russia 1 . Nature 30, 608 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030608a0
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