Golets protrude above the
treeline and are usually round or blunt. They are barren, rocky or stony, and only rarely lichens or stunted small scrubs such as
Siberian pine, can grow on them. Bare rock slopes,
kurums and cliffs are common. The term is usually found in the names of mountaintops in the
South Siberian System, especially in
Transbaikalia and the
Sayan Mountains. The zone below the golets is normally the highest of the
altitudinal vegetation zones, above the
mountain tundra of the
alpine belt. This kind of mountains may consist in single high peaks connected by ridges or in continuous ridges with permanent snowcaps on their highest parts, although most "golets" are usually free of snow in the summer. Since they form part of the topmost elevation level, golets are frequently the highest points of South Siberian mountain ranges, such as in the
Yablonoi Mountains, the
Kropotkin Range, the
Olyokma-Stanovik, the
Chersky Range (Transbaikalia) and the
Khentei-Daur Highlands. ==Examples==