Abandoned quarries of the Middle Dnipro region as promising natural geosites
Journal: Journal of Geology Geography and Geoecology
Year: 2024

The Middle Dnipro, or Prydniprovia, region, mostly represented by the Seredniodniprovskyi Megablock of the Ukrainian Shield and its connection with the Black Sea basin in the south and with the Dnipro-Donetsk Rift in the east, concentrates important objects of industrial extraction of many important types of mineral resources. A large number of open pits are used for their discovery and extraction, which – once exhausted – remain valuable sources of geological information and, accordingly, are o