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Sarmatian Craton – The southern part of the East European Craton or Baltica, also known as Scythian Plateau; Saxothuringian plate – Structural or tectonic zone in the Hercynian or Variscan orogen of central and western Europe; Siberian Craton – Ancient craton forming the Central Siberian Plateau; South Portuguese plate; Tarim craton
The zone runs from the North Sea to the Black Sea. The north-western part of the zone was created by the collision of Avalonia and Baltica/East European Craton in the Late Ordovician. The south-eastern part of the zone, now largely concealed by deep sedimentary basins, developed through Variscan and Alpine orogenic events.
The map shows that the Central Asian Orogenic Belt is located at the northern portion of Asia, and can be divided into two major parts, which are Kazakhstan orocline and Tuva-Mongolia orocline. It is bounded by the East Europe Craton, Siberia Craton, Karakum Craton, Tarim Craton, and North China Craton. [7]
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.
Pieniny Klippen Belt – Zone in the Western Carpathians, with a very complex geological structure; Trans-European Suture Zone – Boundary between the East European Craton and the orogens of South-Western Europe; Vulcan structure – Convergent tectonic boundary between the Medicine Hat and Loverna Blocks in North America
East European Craton, the core of Baltica. Volgo-Uralian Craton, Russia (3.0–2.7 Ga) Baltic Shield, part of the East European Craton; Fennoscandian Shield, the exposed Northwestern part of the Baltic Shield in Norway, Sweden and Finland (3.1 Ga) Karelian Craton, part of the Fennoscandian Shield in Southeast Finland and Karelia Russia, (3.4 Ga)
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 ...
The Akitkan Orogen forms a suture between the Anabar Shield to the northwest and the Aldan Shield to the southeast. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] It is a feature of the Siberian Craton known only from geophysical data along most of its extent because it is covered by younger rocks.