Vendian rocks of the western part of the East European Platform: stratotypic range, boundaries and principles of their establishment

1986 ◽  
Vol 123 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. Makhnach ◽  
N. V. Veretennikov ◽  
V. I. Shkuratov

AbstractThe Vendian in a stratotype area in the western part of the East European Platform includes three regional stratigraphic subdivisions: the Vilchanian, Volynian and Valdaian series, which clearly differ in structure and lithology. They are closely interconnected stratigraphically and geochronologically, and form an indivisible Late Baikalian structural stage of the platform sedimentary cover. The upper subdivision, the Valdaian Series, is palaeontologically substantiated and divided into horizons. The Vendian in such a composition has definite boundaries: the upper biostratigraphic, and lower lithostratigraphic ones, and is well correlated with the formations of the same age from other regions.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail Kaban ◽  
Alexei Gvishiani ◽  
Roman Sidorov ◽  
Alexei Oshchenko ◽  
Roman Krasnoperov

<p><span>A new model has been developed for the density and thickness of the sedimentary cover in a vast region at the junction of the southern part of the East European Platform, the Pre-Caucasus and some structures adjacent to the south, including the Caucasus. Structure and density of sedimentary basins was studied by employing the approach based on decompensation of gravity anomalies. Decompensative correction for gravity anomalies reduces the effect of deep masses providing compensation of near-surface density anomalies, in contrast to the conventional isostatic or Bouguer anomalies. . The new model of sediments, which implies their thickness and density, gives a more detailed description of the sedimentary thickness and density and reveals new features which were not or differently imaged by previous studies. It helps in better understanding of the origin and evolution of the basins and provides a background for further detailed geological and geophysical studies of the region.</span></p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 512
Author(s):  
Mikhail K. Kaban ◽  
Alexei Gvishiani ◽  
Roman Sidorov ◽  
Alexei Oshchenko ◽  
Roman I. Krasnoperov

Modern satellite gravity missions and ground gravimetry provide operational data models that can be used in various studies in geology, tectonics, and climatology, etc. In the present study, sedimentary basins in the southern part of the East European Platform and adjoining areas including the Caucasus are studied by employing the approach based on decompensative gravity anomalies. The new model of sediments, implying their thickness and density, demonstrates several important features of the sedimentary cover, which were not or differently imaged by previous studies. We found a significant redistribution of the low-dense sediments in the Black Sea. Another principal feature is the increased thickness of relatively low-dense sediments in the Eastern Greater Caucasus. The deepest part of the South Caspian basin is shifted to the north, close to the Apsheron Trough. In its present position, it is almost joined with the Terek–Caspian depression, which depth is also increased. The thickness of sediments is significantly decreased in the eastern Pre-Caspian basin. Therefore, the new sedimentary cover model gives a more detailed description of its thickness and density, reveals new features and helps in better understanding of the evolution of the basins, providing a background for further detailed studies of the region.


GEODYNAMICS ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2(11)2011 (2(11)) ◽  
pp. 89-91
Author(s):  
G. Ivanchenko ◽  
◽  
E. M. Horbunova ◽  

The relationship between the structures of the crystalline basement, structures of the sedimentary cover and relief of the day surface was traced on the basis of the geological and geophysical data and the results of visual and automated interpretation of the satellite images of the central part of East European Platform. Completed research allowed to determine the extent of the neotectonic activity of morphostructures influencing at the formation of the geophysical fields.


2019 ◽  
pp. 62-86
Author(s):  
S. Yu. Kolodyazhny ◽  
A. S. Baluev ◽  
D. S. Zykov

Tectonics, morphological features and development stages of Belomorian-Severodvinsk shear zone (north-western part) found in the East European platform are considered. We traced the shear zone (length ≈1000 km) from NW to SE from the Baltic shield to the Russian plate sedimentary cover. It inherited Paleoproterozoic structures of Belomorian-Lapland mobile belt and Riphean grabens of the White Sea rift system. Belomorian-Severodvinsk zone was represented in the modern structure by a system of neotectonic grabens limited by normal and normal–strike sleep faults and segmented by the transform fault zones. We came to conclusion that the shear zone experienced multiple repeated activation in different dynamic conditions in the Riphean–Phanerozoic. Cyclic alternation of riftogenic trans-tension and compression or transpression conditions in the sequence stages of its development was noted. We defined three cycles of transtensive-transpressive transformations of Belomorian-Severodvinsk shear zone in the Riphean and the Early Vendian. At least four times shear zone suffered changes of deformation mode and directions of shear displacement in the Phanerozoic. The postglacial neotectonic deformations in the Belomorian-Severodvinsk shear zone revealed under the Kola block horizontal movement to the S–E and subsequent counterclockwise rotation.


Palaeobotany ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
A. V. Gomankov ◽  
V. F. Tarasevich

Dispersed bisaccate pollen grains of Scutasporites nanuki were studied by means of LM, SEM and TEM. Sacci ultrastructure of these pollen grains was rather peculiar. Sacci were like a thin fi lmy fringe attached to the central body near the equator. They were fi lled with sporopollenin elements of irregular shape and various dimensions with equally various cavities between them. Such an ultrastructure is called as spongy. The morphology and ultrastructure of S. nanuki is discussed in the context of the evolution of early conifers.


2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
M. A. Nagornyi ◽  
V. G. Nikolaev

2020 ◽  
Vol 157 (12) ◽  
pp. 2081-2088
Author(s):  
Sergey B Felitsyn ◽  
Eugeny S. Bogomolov

AbstractAn enhanced concentration of phosphorus has been found at the stratigraphic level of the disappearance of Ediacaran taxa in two areas, the Cis-Dniester region and the Moscow syneclise, on the East European Platform (EEP). The isotope composition of neodymium was determined in Fe sulphide and phosphorite in the same beds. Measured εNd(t) values in diagenetic phosphate nodules are similar to those in iron sulphide from the same layer. During the Ediacaran − Early Cambrian, accumulation of radiogenic Nd in the epeiric basins on the EEP increased progressively from −17.9 and −19.4 in pyrite from the sequence bottom to −7.9 and −8.5 in the Early Cambrian pyrite of the central part of the EEP. The Ediacaran phosphate nodules show εNd(t) ranging from −12.9 to −15.0, while that in the Early Cambrian nodules is typically c. −9.0. These data indicate the secular change in Nd isotope composition of the water reservoir on the EEP from Ediacaran to Cambrian.


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