Geological Map of Kazakhstan
Legend
Map units
Units present in the map data, coloured as on the map and ordered youngest to oldest. The number is the polygon count. IGME 5000 covers the west; Generalized Geology of the World (GGW) covers the rest.
Kazakhstan, Macrostrat -
1:1.5M Kazakh SSR (1967) -
Geological map of the Kazakh SSR, 1:1,500,000 (1967). Scan via geokniga.org. Legend transcribed from the map sheet; English is a short translation. Click the map with this layer on to identify a unit. Units are matched by colour, so similar colours can be confused.
Context
Geology of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan sits in the interior of Eurasia. Much of the country belongs to the Paleozoic Central Asian Orogenic Belt, built from Precambrian microcontinental blocks, island arcs and accretionary complexes that were joined together during the Paleozoic.
In the west, the Caspian depression holds thick sedimentary successions, and Mesozoic and Cenozoic cover rocks spread across the western and southern lowlands. Central and eastern Kazakhstan expose folded Paleozoic sedimentary, volcanic and intrusive rocks.
The map shows small scale geologic units from Macrostrat: the IGME 5000 map of Europe (1:5M) in the west, and the Generalized Geology of the World compilation elsewhere. Both are clipped to the Natural Earth border of Kazakhstan and simplified, so treat them as an overview, not a field map.