Technological map of the Starunsky geodynamic landfill on the Prycarpathia

Abstract

Starunia’s Geodynamic Landfill is an area of 60 hectares of the geological monument of nature of the national significance “Starunia” – the world-famous location of the Pleistocene mammoth fauna and four hairy rhinos. The first findings of the mummified carcasses of animals of the so-called mammoth fauna were found at a depth of 12 m at the mine (mine) for the extraction of ozokerite near the village. The old town of Bohorodchany district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, 1907 Scholars of Krakow and Lviv appreciated these unique discoveries enough and published a number of articles and a monograph in 1914. In 1929, an expedition of the Skill Academy from Krakow found the remains of three more hairy rhinos at a mine depth of 17 m. Numerous bones of small vertebrates (rodents), shell remains, numerous species of insects, beetles, parasitic worms, bedbugs, butterflies, spiders, snails, vascular plants, midges, seeds and branches of dwarf birch, alder and other flora were also collected. Polish scientists have organized comprehensive studies of fauna and flora, partly their results were published in articles, but the Second World War halted this process. It is important to note that Starunia’s findings intensified the comprehensive study of stratigraphy, paleontology, paleogeography, geochronology, and other aspects of the Quaternary – the quartet. It should be recalled that in 1932, in Leningrad, the International Geological Congress established INQUA – the International Union for the Study of the Quaternary. But the basic methodological foundations of this study were laid on the materials of Elder.