Orography of Azerbaijan

Besh Barmag Mountain ("Five Finger Mountain") is located in Absheron, Azerbaijan.

Orography of Azerbaijan refers to the rocky, mountainous and elevated terrains in Azerbaijan.[1] The tectonic structure is typical for the orography of the country. The main morphostructural units are the Greater Caucasus, the Lesser Caucasus, the Gusar plane, the Samur-Devechi lowland, the Kur intermountain trough, the Karabagh volcanic highland, the near and middle Araz Ridges and Talysh Mountains.[2]

  1. ^ Азербайджан – Orography Archived 2013-04-18 at the Wayback Machine Azerbaijan.az
  2. ^ Akif A. Alizadeh; Ibrahim S. Guliyev; Fakhraddin A. Kadirov; Lev V. Eppelbaum (June 2016). Geosciences of Azerbaijan: Volume I: Geology (Regional Geology Reviews). Springer. ISBN 9783319273938.