The Gornaya Shoria megaliths, meaning Mountain Shoria megaliths, are rock formations found within the Mountain Shoria (Gornaya Shoriya)(Russian: Горная Шория) region that comprises the southern part of Kemerovo Oblast in southern Siberia, Russia.[1][2] The Gornaya Shoria megaliths, also known as the Surak-Kuilum megalithic complex and by other names, form the ridgecrests and summit of Mount Kuylyum (Kuilum, Kulyum)(Russian: Горна Куйлюм), 1,203 m (3,947 ft) in elevation. The base of this mountain is located 8 km away from the village of Orton (Russian: Ортон). Mount Kuylyum is part of the Kulyum-Surak granite massif in the Shoria Mountains. The ridgecrests and summits of this massif ranges in elevation between 700 and 1,203 m (2,297 and 3,947 ft).[3]
Fringe articles have claimed these rock formations are gigantic prehistoric man-made blocks, or megaliths.[4] Geologic mapping of ridgecrests and summit of Mount Kuylyum by geologists, which was conducted in the late 1990s, identified these rock formations as denudated prepared ridges (Russian: Денудационные отпрепарированные гребни и гряды), which are ridges created by the natural and differential erosion of local bedrock.[5]
^Куприянов А.Н., 2007. Наш дом – Горная Шория: учебное пособие (Our house: Mountain Shoria: Textbook)(In Russian). Кемеровская область, город Кемерово, CREOO "Irbis", 164 pp.
^Егорова, Н. Т., Евтушик, Н. Г., Багмет, Г. Н., и Удодов, Ю.В., 2018, Физическая география Кемеровской области: учебное пособие (Physical geography of the Kemerovo region: textbook)(In Russian). Новокузнецк, Кемеровский гос. ун-т, Новокузнецкий ин-т (фил.). 263 pp. ISBN 978-5-8353-2007-3.
^Беспалов А.Г., Астахов С.Е., и Амелин И.И., 2016, Мегалиты горы Куйлюм (Горная Шория) (Megaliths of the Kuiljum Mountains (Shoria Mountains))(In Russian), cc. 125-129. Возможности развития краеведения и ту ризма Сибирского региона и сопредель ных территорий, Сборник материалов XVI Международной научно-практической конференции, посвященной памяти Почетного председателя ТОО РГО, профессора Петра Андреевича Окишева. Томск, Томская область, Россия, Томский государственный университет. c. 410. ISBN 978-5-9908506-9-9
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^Федерального агентства по недропользованию, 2001. Карта четвертичных отложений (Map of Quaternary Formations) (In Russian). масштаба 1: 200,000, Издание второе, Кузбасская серия, N-45-XXIХ (Усть-Кабырза)
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