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The Siberian Traps (Russian: Сибирские траппы, romanized: Sibirskiye trappy) are a large region of volcanic rock, known as a large igneous province, in Siberia, Russia. The massive eruptive event that formed the traps is one of the largest known volcanic events in the last 500 million years.
The volcanically produced Siberian Traps, the largest flood basalts of the Phanerozoic (the last 539 million years), mantle about 40 percent of the Siberian craton. [19] [29] The Siberian craton is known for its large mineral resources. The town of Norilsk is the world's largest supplier of nickel. In 2011 one-fifth of the world's production of ...
Siberia in Paleozoic times formed the continent of Siberia/Angaraland, which fused to Euramerica during the Late Carboniferous, as part of the formation of Pangea. [20] The Siberian Traps were formed by one of the largest-known volcanic events of the last 251 million years of Earth's geological history.
Satellite images show a giant hole in Siberia is rapidly expanding.. The Batagay megaslump is a result of the ground thawing and collapsing as Arctic temperatures rise. It's an extreme case of a ...
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Much of the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province is inside. [1] The area is of about 400,000 square miles (1,000,000 km 2) in Krasnoyarsk Territory and Sakha Republic, between the Yenisei and Lena rivers. It contains a huge untapped coal reserve. Its main settlements there are Norilsk, Igarka, and Yeniseisk. The Tunguska rivers cross the basin.
The Siberian Trap is a chess opening trap. After a series of natural moves in the Smith–Morra Gambit of the Sicilian Defence, White can lose a queen.The name appears to result from Boris Schipkov of Novosibirsk in southwestern Siberia.
The extent of the Siberian Traps (map in German) (from Siberian Traps) Image 16 An ethnographic map of 16th-century Siberia , made in the Russian Empire period, between 1890 and 1907 (from Indigenous peoples of Siberia )