GEOLOGICAL LANDMARKS OF UKRAINE. LVIV REGION.

Volyno-Podilska Plate

Lviv city, north-western outskirt

49° 51′ N lat.; 24° 00′ E long.

Square 5 hectares

Stratigraphic, geomorphologic

Kortumova Gora is a counterpart of south-eastern margin of the European watershed ridge which is called “Roztochchya”. On eastern cliffy mountain slope there is exposed part of the Badenian regio-stage section (Middle Miocene, Opilska Suite, 14 Ma). This is intercalation of lens-like glauconite-quartz sands with clear coarse-oblique banding, quartz sandstones and limestones with interbeds of bentonite clays, and with remnants of molluscs and pearlworts. The rocks are overlain by Upper Pleistocene loess-like loams in which there are found evidences for Late Paleolite human settlement.

This is an example of Badenian regio-stage section and flat-top erosion remnant at the margin of Roztochchya.

Ecological conditions are not suitable.

Access by Shevchenko Street up to the end stop of № 7 tram.

Legally the object is defined as local-rank nature landmark since 1970.

Sourсe: Geological Landmarks of Ukraine: In 3 volumes/V.P. Bezvynniy, S.V. Biletski, O.B. Bobrovetal.; V.l. Kalinin, D.S. Gurskiy, I.V. Antakova, Eds. — K.: DIA, 2006. — Volume I. — 320 p.