GEOLOGICAL MONUMENTS OF THE RIVNE REGION

Abstract

One of the types of national wealth of Ukraine is biological and landscape diversity, which ensures the ecosystem and biosphere functions of living nature and forms the living conditions of humans. An important part of the specified values ​​is preserved in geological monuments – unique natural objects that are open to knowledge and have scientific, cultural and aesthetic significance. Pursuant to the Law of Ukraine "On the Statewide Program for the Formation of the National Ecological Network of Ukraine for 2000-2015", only in 2009 the Rivne Regional Council (September 25, 2009, No. 1330) approved the Regional Program for the Development of the Nature Reserve Fund and the Formation of the Ecological Network of the Rivne Region on 2010–2020. At present, the nature-reserve direction of landscape diversity is limited to the characteristics of wetlands, which is insufficient for carrying out an ecological assessment of the effectiveness of the development of the nature-reserve fund of the Rivne region, aimed at preventing damage and destruction of natural complexes. In the opinion of the author, it is expedient to expand the reserve network, taking into account the state of geological monuments, which are a physical component of the reserve fund and landscape diversity. Geological monuments are, first of all, outcrops of rocks and forms of the earth’s surface on separate landscapes, which most vividly illustrate the structure of the Earth’s crust and the natural processes that took place throughout the entire history of the geological development of the planet and continue to this day. We consider it necessary to present to the society some results of research works on the study of the geological structure and the history of its development of this region. The isotopic age was determined on each outcrop of crystalline rocks. This is the "Osnytsk" outcrop, which is located 4 kilometers to the  west of the village of Rokytne on the western edge of the village. Osnytsk, on the left bank of the Lva River. The quarry revealed dark gray and pink granites, as well as almost black diorite-porphyrites, which are the oldest formations of the Ukrainian crystalline shield according to the isotopic age – 1 billion nine hundred and fifty million years. Actually, after the name of the village of Osnytsk, the name "Osnytsk complex" was assigned to the intrusives, which is mapped in all European countries and eastern Ukraine. The existing monuments contain scientific information and cognitive and educational value, which is why they should be protected by the state for future generations to learn about the development of our region.