Kök-Moinok canyons
The Kök-Moinok Canyons are located 170 km east of Bishkek and 11 km west of Balykchy in the Ton district of the Ysyk-Köl region. The Kök-Moinok Canyons are part of the Boom Gorge.
The Kök-Moinok canyons formed as a result of the Ysyk-Köl Lake's water level fluctuations and the tectonic uplift of the territory during the Middle Pleistocene (1-1.5 Ma).
The Pleistocene (often referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
The sediments in the Kök-Moinok depression are made up of light loam, sandy loam, and sandy layers.
Geological processes in the Kök-Moinok depression formed a typical "layer cake," which allows the reconstruction of ancient geological and climatic conditions.
The canyons are a great educational and research site for understanding modern geological processes of erosion and accumulation of rocks, as well as the origin and development of canyons.
