Editing Lake Teletskoye (section)

== Research ==
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[[File:Lake Teletskoye ISS008-E-7600.jpg|thumb|The lake from space, 2003.]]
There is a field base of Institute of Taxonomy and Ecology of Animals ({{langx|ru|[[:ru:Институт систематики и экологии животных СО РАН|Институт систематики и экологии животных СО РАН]]}}) by the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences ({{langx|ru|[[:ru:Сибирское отделение Российской академии наук|Сибирское отделение Российской академии наук]]}}) at the northwest part of the lake, about 6&nbsp;km from head water of [[Biya River]]. Therein studies are performed of the insect-eaters and rodents of [[Altai Republic]], [[Helminthology|helminthofauna]] of vertebrates in biocenoses of taiga, ichthyocenose and animal plankton of Lake Teletskoye. Near the base there is located the research-and-production sport-and-sanitary base of [[Gorno-Altaisk State University]]. [[Tomsk State University]] has been conducting scientific research in the area for more than 50 years. Ecologists, geologists, and archeologists from Institute of Water and Ecological Problems ({{langx|ru|[[:ru:Институт водных и экологических проблем СО РАН|Институт водных и экологических проблем СО РАН]]}}) the Siberian Division of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] from the Institute of Water and Ecological Problems spend many years working here to study the lake and surrounding area. Geomorphologists and geologists scrutinize geological structure of Lake Teletskoye, its paleogeography, age, and origin.

It has been known for a long time that there are [[gold]] in placers and [[bedrock]] deposits in the [[Altai Mountains|Altai]]. The Geomorphologists from [[Tomsk State University]] works in the Teletskoye geology-prospecting detachment searching for gold-placers. They managed to establish a new search criterion for a placer. The base for the discovery were the palaeoglaciological studies during the last few years and theoretical models of the diluvial morpholithogenesis. The content of the precious component is everywhere much higher than the lowest accepted industrial standard, sometimes it's tremendous.

The investigators carried out large-scale exploration routes on vast territories near watersheds of the upper reaches of all the rivers in the northern and western parts of the Teletskoye Lake basin. These explorations included studies of exposures, boring of prospect-holes, [[wikt:pit|pits]] and [[wikt:hollow|hollow]] wells (up to 15 m deep). The results of these investigations let us speak about the regularity and reliability of the new criterion. The first 14C-method data for the layered [[clay]]s on the flat [[Drainage basin|watersheds]] showed the age of 15 thousand years and younger. This important fact leads to an unavoidable conclusion about the youth of the Teletskoje Lake depression – the post-glacial age of “the last cutting” during the pre-glacial ([[Late Quaternary]]) [[peneplain]].