Pay-Khoy Range

Pay-Khoy Range
Pay-Khoy Range
хребет Пай-Хой
	Folded layers of rock of the Pay-Khoy Range at the Silovayaha River
Highest point
Peak	Morye-Iz
Elevation	423 m (1,388 ft)
Coordinates	69°25′39″N 62°12′32″E / 69.42750°N 62.20889°E
Geography
	Pay-Khoy Range Location in Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Range coordinates	69°12′13″N 62°36′28″E / 69.203553°N 62.607785°E
Parent range	Urals
Geology
Orogeny	Cimmerian Orogeny
Age of rock	Late Triassic - Early Jurassic.
Type of rock	Sandstone, marl, limestone and crystalline shale
Climbing
Easiest route	From Amderma

The Pay-Khoy Range^[1] (Russian: хребет Пай-Хой) is a mountain range at the northern end of the Ural Mountains. It lies within the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

Geography

The ridge is extended from northwest to southeast. It is located on the Yugorsky Peninsula, in the eastern part of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The ridge continues to Vaygach Island, thus separating the Barents Sea and the Kara Sea. The highest point of Pay-Khoy is the mountain of Moreiz (467 metres (1,532 ft)).^[2] The range separates the drainage basins of the Korotaikha River [ru] (west, Barents Sea) and the Kara River (east, Kara Sea).

The areas around Pay-Khoy do not have permanent population. The closest permanent settlements are Amderma and Ust-Kara, Nenets Autonomous Okrug The range is located in the tundra, to the north of the tree line.

Geology

The Pay-Khoy range forms a curved orogen together with the Ural Mountains, Vaygach Island and the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. The Pay-Khoy and Novaya Zemlya are younger than the orogeny that formed the Ural mountains. They were formed during the Cimmerian Orogeny between the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic.^[3]

Bibliography

Kovalskiy, M.A. Northern Urals and the Coastal Range Pai-Khoi. Volume 1. Research Expeditions of the Imperial Russian Geographic Society in 1847, 1848 and 1850. ISBN 5519416656

References

^ Yushkinite from Dolgozhdannyi Waterfall, Pai-Khoi Range
^ Пай-Хой. Great Soviet Encyclopedia.
^ Lindquist, Sandra J. (1999). The Timan-Pechora Basin Province of Northwest Arctic Russia: Domanik – Paleozoic Total Petroleum System (PDF). U. S. Geological Survey. p. 11. Retrieved 28 December 2021.

[1] Yushkinite from Dolgozhdannyi Waterfall, Pai-Khoi Range

[GSE-2] Пай-Хой. Great Soviet Encyclopedia.

[Lindquist_1999-3] Lindquist, Sandra J. (1999). The Timan-Pechora Basin Province of Northwest Arctic Russia: Domanik – Paleozoic Total Petroleum System (PDF). U. S. Geological Survey. p. 11. Retrieved 28 December 2021.

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