GEOMORPHOLOGİCAL STRUCTURE OF THE LESSER CAUCASUS

The article discusses the relief forms and types common in the Lesser Caucasus, as well as their distribution over the territory. The Lesser Caucasus is an important morphostructural unit of the South Caucasus. Tectonic movements, volcanism and denudation-accumulation processes played a role in the formation of its relief. The main morphostructures common in the Lesser Caucasus include Murovdag, Shahdag, Karabakh ridge, East Goycha, Karabakh volcanic plateau, Shamkir massif, etc. The relief of the Lesser Caucasus is not characterized by a single watershed, but has a block-step structure. In terms of sea sculpture, accumulative-denudation, fluvial, karst and glacial relief forms are widespread in the area. Canyons, river valleys, terraces, karst caves, volcanic cones, and glacial traces located here complicate the relief. B.A. Antonov, Kh.K. Tanrıverdiyev, N.Sh. Shirinov and others played an important role in studying the relief of the area. The Dashalti Canyon belongs to the fluvial relief forms, the Azikh and Avey caves to the karst relief, and the Bashkend-Dastafur depression to the accumulative relief.