Christian Temple at the Foot of Kilisa-Kaya Mountain (South-Eastern Crimea): Probable Traces of Geodisasters
Journal: Izvestiya Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Year: 2024

Our archaeoseismological studies of the ruins of a medieval Christian temple located at the foot of Kilisa–Kaya Mountain in the southeast of the Crimean Peninsula have shown that the building structures have obvious traces of significant seismic damages: tilts, shifts, and rotations of both entire building elements and individual stone blocks or their packages. Extended subvertical interblock cracks break the walls of the temple to their entire residual height. Oblique cracks that occur under co