The Iomrautvaam (russian: Иомраутваам; ckt, Емрауткенваам) is a river in
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug,
Russia
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. The length of the river is and the area of is
drainage basin
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.
The Iomrautvaam is the longest tributary of the
Khatyrka river.
Course
The Iomrautvaam has its source in the
Komeutyuyam Range of the
Koryak Highlands
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. It flows in a roughly northeastern direction in the northern section of the range. Finally it meets the right bank of the
Khatyrka from its mouth, close to the northeastern end of the ridge.
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Khatyrka meteorite
The Khatyrka meteorite
Khatyrka (russian: метеорит Хатырка) is a meteorite found in 2011 in the valley of the Iomrautvaam, a tributary of the Khatyrka river, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Far East. It is a CV3 (oxidized) chondrite meteorite.
Histo ...
, a unique-type of meteorite fell in the area of the Iomrautvaam river basin at . It was found during an expedition to Chukotka in the summer of 2011 buried in a 7,000-year-old layer of dirt and was named Khatyrka meteorite.
Flora and fauna
The river basin is characterized by tundra
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vegetation, including mosses, lichens, dwarf shrubs, and sedge
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s.[V. Yu. Neshataeva, ''Vegetation cover of the North of the Kamchatka Okrug (Kamchatsky Krai) and its geobotanical zoning'' // Ecology and geography of plants and plant communities: Proceedings of the IV International Scientific Conference. - Yekaterinburg, 2018. - April 16. — ISBN 978-5-7741-0341-6]
See also
*Khatyrkite
Khatyrkite ( ) is a rare mineral which is mostly composed of copper and aluminium, but may contain up to about 15% of zinc or iron. Its chemical structure is described by an approximate formula or . It was discovered in 1985 in a placer in assoc ...
*List of rivers of Russia
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References
External links
Astronomy.com - An old meteor yields a new surprise: a never-before-seen materialCollisions in outer space produced an icosahedral phase in the Khatyrka meteorite never observed previously in the laboratoryThe Penzhina-West Kamchatka folded zone and the Ukelayat-Sredinnyi block in the structure of the Koryak Highland and Kamchatka
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Rivers of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Koryak Mountains