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  1. Research article must be submitted in English, and the extended abstract - in Georgian.
  2. Total research article length should be under 15 pages, including a short abstract (in English), an extended abstract (in Georgian), figures, tables, data sets and references.
  3. Research article should be formatted as follows (see the example below):
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  1. Extended abstract - up to 2 pages, font size 11, spacing - 1.15.
  2. Main text - A4, font 11, spacing - 1.15, paragraph indentation - 10 mm; margins: top - 25 mm, bottom - 25 mm, left - 35 mm and right - 20 mm;
  3. The main text should include sections with brief and informative subheadings. They are as follows:
  • Introduction, which should express main findings of the article;
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  • Discussion, where an overview of the study that generated the data should be provided;

-      Conclusions, where the final results of the research should be presented.

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  4. References should be compiled in alphabetical order; First you should indicate the surname and initials of the author(s), then in parentheses the year, title of the article, name of the journal/book and pages of the article; references should be cited in the text with the author(s) and year in parentheses, for example: (Taylor, 1999). In the case of one, two and three authors, all of them should be indicated, and in the case of four or more authors, only first author should be indicated, for example: (Alther et al., 2000).
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GEOCHEMISTRY OF VARISCAN GRANITOIDS

OF THE GREATER CAUCASUS

  1. Shengelia*, N. Poporadze**, R. Vekua*

 *Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Alexandre Janelidze Institute of Geology

**Georgian TechnicalUniversity

Abstract. The Caucasus represents complicated polycyclic geological structure involving mountain foldsystems of the Greater and Lesser Caucasus and adjacent fore deeps and intermountain troughs....

Key words: the Greater Caucasus; geochemistry; Variscan granitoids.

საკვანძო სიტყვები: კავკასიონი; გეოქიმია; ვარისკული გრანიტოიდები.

გაფართოებული რეზიუმე

 კავკასიონის ვარისკული გრანიტოიდების გეოქიმია. დ. შენგელია, ნ. ფოფო­რაძე, რ. ვეკუა. კავკასია წარმოადგენს რთულ პოლიციკლურ გეოლოგიურ სტრუქტურას, რომელიც მოიცავს კავკასიონისა და მცირე კავკასიის მთათა ნაოჭა სისტემებს, მომიჯნავე განაპირა როფებსა და მთათაშუა როფს....

INTRODUCTION

The Caucasus represents complicated polycyclic geological structure involving mountain foldsystems of the Greater and Lesser Caucasus and adjacent fore deeps and intermountain troughs....

Table 1.

Composition of hornblende-bearing granitoids of the Elbrus subzone

 

№

SiO2

TiO2

Al2O3

Fe2O3

FeO

MnO

CaO

MgO

P2O5

Na2O

K2O

H2O+

259

46.5

0.41

9.42

2.12

8.90

0.18

10.20

18.40

0.16

2.0

0.7

0.15

260

50.0

1.00

18.70

2.76

5.96

0.15

8.75

5.47

0.20

2.9

2.3

0.22

662

46.0

0.31

8.12

2.28

8.47

0.21

10.70

19.70

0.13

1.9

0.6

0.17

6085

54.5

0.89

17.80

2.40

5.24

0.13

7.42

3.88

0.33

4.0

2.0

0.16

Plagiognaisses  – 259, 260 (Nenskra River gorge), 662, 6085 (Nakra River gorge)

REFERENCES

Gamkrelidze I., Shengelia D. (1998). New data on the interrelation and age of the Dzirula crystalline massif constituting rocks//Bull. Acad. Sci. of Geor­gia, vol. 158, N1, pp. 93-96.