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Novaya Zemlya, a continuation of the Ural Mountains system, is for the most part mountainous, though the southern portion of Yuzhny Island is merely hilly. The mountains, which rise at most to 5,220 feet (1,590 m), consist of igneous and sedimentary materials, including limestones and slates.
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During 1995 Project URSEIS (Urals Reflection Seismic Experiment and Integrated Studies) acquired seismic reflection profiling data (with both vibroseis and dynamite sources) and wide-angle seismic data along a 450 km transect of the southern Ural Mountains (Fig. 4, 6). These data provide a complete seismic image of the crustal and upper mantle architecture of an intact Palaeozoic continental collision.
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Rotary Youth Exchange is a program sponsored by Rotary District 5010 covering Alaska, the Yukon Territory, and Russia east of the Ural Mountains. This covers three countries, 11 time zones, and multiple languages. Youth Exchange provides students 15 to 17 an opportunity to travel to a foreign country and experience the culture while serving as an ambassador for their home country. Youth Exchange is a world wide program and is open to everyone without discrimination. Youth Exchange is a live-in experience not a travel vacation.
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Results of the URSEIS '95 integrated seismic experiment document the lithospheric structure of an intact Paleozoic collisional orogen in the Ural Mountains. Hybrid-source seismic reflection and refraction data provide images of a crustal-scale collisional fabric and a pronounced crustal root preserved since Paleozoic time. Mantle reflections are observed at depths of more than 150kilometers, possibly representing the base of the lithosphere. The Urals do not conform to existing models of postorogenic evolution involving large-scale extension, which may be a consequence of an incomplete or arrested collisional process that has led to the preservation of the largest continental landmass.
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An April 16, 1996 New York Times article stated: In a secret project reminiscent of the chilliest days of the Cold War, Russia is building a mammoth underground military complex in the Ural Mountains, Western officials and Russian witnesses say. Hidden inside Yamantau Mountain in the Beloretsk area of the southern Urals, the project involved the creation of a huge complex, served by a railroad, a highway, and thousands of workers.’
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Geologically, the Urals are the worn-down stumps of an ancient range that rose toward the end of the Paleozoic era, 250 million years ago (see Permian Period), while the American Appalachian Mountains were forming. The divisions of the range reflect distinct episodes in this ancient upheaval, which squeezed thick sedimentary rock layers into large northern-southern trending folds, then faulted and intruded them with a variety of igneous rocks.
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