The territory of the Azerbaijan Republic comprises the E part of three main units of the Caucasian isthmus between the Black and Caspian Seas — the Greater Caucasus, the Kura intermontane basin and the Lesser Caucasus, and standing somewhat apart the Talesh Mountains. The Autonomous Nakhichevan Republic enclave also belongs to another tectonic unit — the Iranian median mass (former microcontinent).
Greater Caucasus
The territory of Azerbaijan includes the E part of the S slope of the E half of this mountainous edifice and all its SE termination (Figs 30, 31). Beginning from the N, from the shore of the Middle Caspian Basin, we recognize here the Kusary-Divichi Foredeep — the eastern most link of the N foredeep band of the Greater Caucasus, displaced to the S in respect to the more westerly Terek-Caspian Foredeep and superimposed on the continuation of the N slope of the range in Daghestan. The Kusary-Divichi trough, as with other Caucasian...
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Khain, V.E. (1997). Azerbaijan. In: Encyclopedia of European and Asian Regional Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4495-X_8
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