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The geology of Russia, the world's largest country, which extends over much of northern Eurasia, consists of several stable cratons and sedimentary platforms bounded by orogenic (mountain) belts. European Russia is on the East European craton , at the heart of which is a complex of igneous and metamorphic rocks dating back to the Precambrian .
Russia geology-related lists (4 P) C. Coal mining regions in Russia (5 P) F. Geologic formations of Russia (2 C, 31 P) Fossils of Russia (3 C, 329 P) G.
Yuri Bilibin, geologist, studied placer geology and organized expeditions that discovered gold deposits in Eastern Siberia Mariya Borodayevskaya , geologist Leonid Brekhovskikh , founder of modern acoustical oceanography , discovered the deep sound channel , the first to observe mesoscale ocean eddies
Pages in category "Geologic formations of Russia" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. .
[1] [2] The Gornaya Shoria megaliths, also known as the Surak-Kuilum megalithic complex and by other names, form the ridgecrests and summit of Mount Kuylyum (Kuilum, Kulyum)(Russian: Горна Куйлюм), 1,203 m (3,947 ft) in elevation. The base of this mountain is located 8 km away from the village of Orton (Russian: Ортон). Mount ...
Zavaritski Caldera (Russian: Вулкан Заварицкого, Vulkan Zavaritskogo), also spelled "Zavaritskii" and "Zavaritsky", is a caldera system located in the centre of Simushir island, in the central Kuril Islands, Russia.
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 Fennoscandia Shield and its components, the Russian Platform and Baltic Shield make up a large portion of the East European Craton. Crystalline basement rock formed between 2 billion and 1.65 billion years ago, with most activity ending around 1.75 billion years ago. The rocks were then affected by the Svecofennian orogeny. [2]