Everything about Tuva

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: TuvaA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Bending of the Western Mongolian Blocks Initiated the Late Triassic Closure of the Mongol‐Okhotsk Ocean and Formation of the Tuva‐Mongol OroclineInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Tuva or bust!The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Neoproterozoic (∼800 Ma) orogeny in the Tuva-Mongolia Massif (Siberia): island arc–continent collision at the northeast Rodinia marginCited 142 times
5. Go sideways: Flag of TuvaA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: List of rural localities in TuvaA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Neoproterozoic (∼800 Ma) orogeny in the Tuva-Mongolia Massif (Siberia): island arc–continent collision at the northeast Rodinia margin

  A Kuzmichev · 2001 · Precambrian Research · 142 citations

• Isolation and Characterization of Halotolerant Alkaliphilic Methanotrophic Bacteria from Tuva Soda Lakes

  Valentina N. Khmelenina · 1997 · Current Microbiology · 127 citations

• Late Glacial and Holocene vegetational history of the Altai Mountains (southwestern Tuva Republic, Siberia)

  T.A. Blyakharchuk, H.E. Wright, P.S. Borodavko · 2007 · Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology · 121 citations

• Minority community participation in tourism: A case of Kanas Tuva villages in Xinjiang, China

  Hui Wang, Zhaoping Yang, Li Chen · 2010 · Tourism Management · 81 citations

• Meso-Cenozoic building of the northern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Thermotectonic history of the Tuva region

  Johan De Grave, Elien De Pelsmaeker, Fedor I. Zhimulev · 2014 · Tectonophysics · 63 citations

• Ethnic minority tourism in China – Han perspectives of Tuva figures in a landscape

  Jingjing Yang, Chris Ryan, Lingyun Zhang · 2013 · Tourism Management · 48 citations

• Paleomagnetism of the Precambrian Eastern Sayan rocks: Implications for the Ediacaran–Early Cambrian paleogeography of the Tuva-Mongolian composite terrane

  Vadim A. Kravchinsky, Eugene V. Sklyarov, Dmitry P. Gladkochub · 2010 · Tectonophysics · 42 citations

• The tectonomagmatic evolution of structure-lithologic complexes in the Tannu-Ola zone, Tuva, in the Late Vendian–Early Cambrian (from geochemical, Nd isotope, and geochronological data)

  A.A. Mongush, V.I. Lebedev, V.P. Kovach · 2011 · Russian Geology and Geophysics · 41 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Bending of the Western Mongolian Blocks Initiated the Late Triassic Closure of the Mongol‐Okhotsk Ocean and Formation of the Tuva‐Mongol Orocline

  Pan Zhao, Erwin Appel, Chenglong Deng · 2023 · Tectonics · 15 citations

• Dining in Tuva: Social correlates of diet and mobility in Southern Siberia during the 2nd–4th centuriesCE

  Marco Milella, Gino Caspari, Zita Laffranchi · 2022 · American Journal of Biological Anthropology · 14 citations

• Influence of Texture on Humus Accumulation in Soils of Dry Steppes of Tuva

  E. A. Gurkova, D. A. Sokolov · 2022 · Eurasian Soil Science · 8 citations

• THE AGE OF EARLY COLLISIONAL GRANITOIDS OF WESTERN SANGILEN (SE TUVA): IMPLICATIONS FOR ESTIMATING THE DURATION OF OROGENY AT THE MARGIN OF THE TUVA-MONGOLIAN MASSIF

  D. V. Semenova, V. G. Vladimirov, I. V. Karmysheva · 2024 · Geodynamics & Tectonophysics · 8 citations

• Geochronology and geochemistry of early Paleozoic granitic and coeval mafic rocks from the Tannuola terrane (Tuva, Russia): Implications for transition from a subduction to post-collisional setting in the northern part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

  E.V. Vetrov, N.I. Vetrova, E.A. Pikhutin · 2024 · Gondwana Research · 6 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Tuva or bust!Ralph Leighton · 1991
• 📕Ti͡urkskiĭ mir v t͡sentre Severnogo KavkazaSvetlana Mikhaĭlovna Chervonnai͡a, Z. V. Anaĭban · 1999
• Journey to TuvaOtto Maenchen-Helfen, Otto J. Manchen-Helfen · 1992
• 📕Pamphlets - Collection of Tuva literature
• 📕Prirodnye usloviia Tuvinskoĭ avtonomnoĭ oblasti. · 1957
• 📕Petrologiia i geokhimiia redkikh ėlementov ..Vitaliǐ Illarionovich Kovalenko · 1970
• 📕Kembriǐskaia tektonika i vulkanizm Tuvy · 1970
• 📕Materialy nauchno-prakticheskoĭ konferent︠s︡ii "Rossii︠a︡ i Tuva: 60 let vmeste", posvi︠a︡shchennoĭ 60-letii︠u︡ Respubliki Tyva v sostav Rossiĭskoĭ Federat︠s︡ii i 90-letti︠u︡ osnovanii︠a︡ g. Kyzyla · 2004

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