Podolian Upland
The Podolic plate (Ukrainian Подільська височина, also called Podolisches highlands; partially equated with Wolhynisch - Podolic plate ) is a 471.9 meter high to very elongated plateau in Ukraine with foothills in northeastern Moldova.
The Podolic plate located in the southwest of the great European Plain, among others, in the landscapes of Galicia and Podolia. It stretches from Lviv to the southeast, for example through the area of Ternopil and Khmelnytsky and past Vinnytsia, which lies in the transition region to Dneprhochland the Southern Bug, through the area of Kotowsk to the lowlands at the Black Sea with located at the coast Odessa. The plate extends south of the sources from West bow and Southern Bug and between the rivers of Southern Bug approximately in the northeast and the Dniester about to the southwest. In the northwest, the plate reaches south of about 30 km southeast of Lviv lying village Pomanow with 471.9 m ( ⊙ 49.68952777777824.346388888889 ) their highest point.
The medium mountain -like landscape of the Podolian plate is characterized by hilly and mountainous areas, go through the partially canyon-like and strongly meandering river valleys. It mainly consists of several hundred meters thick limestone layers of marine sediments from the primeval ocean Paratethys, since the geological formation of the Jura until well into the Miocene were deposited here millions of years into it. These layers occur at the baffle slopes of the river valleys in many places days and are a varied interruption of the often monotonous appearing but gentle landscape image. Over time, the top layer of karst Podolian plate, the largest contiguous gypsum karst area in the world, by the action of groundwater and surface water, and in the Karst particularly many gypsum caves were formed. The most famous of these caves is the Optymistytschna Cave is the second longest cave in the world with 215 km length transition.
The largest city in the Podolian plate is located in the Nordwestausläufen Lviv. Other cities in the countryside or on their edges are: Khmelnytsky, Kamenetz- Podolsky, Rîbniţa, Ternopil, Vinnytsia and Tulchyn.