The newest stage of development of the White Sea depression
| Autor: | S. B. Nikolaeva, V. Ya. Yevzerov, A. N. Vinogradov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Pleistocene Subsidence Late Miocene 010502 geochemistry & geophysics 01 natural sciences Graben Paleontology Tectonics Continental margin Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Period (geology) General Earth and Planetary Sciences Geology Holocene 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Doklady Earth Sciences. 471:1221-1225 |
| ISSN: | 1531-8354 1028-334X |
| DOI: | 10.1134/s1028334x16120023 |
| Popis: | Analysis of materials on the geological structure and tectonics of the White Sea depression area suggests that this depression existed in the Middle Pleistocene and was connected with the World Ocean. It is still impossible to determine the exact time of its formation due to an insufficient knowledge of the depression loose cover. However it is most likely that the depression was formed in the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene, when after the regressive development of the continental margin the shelf subsidence began. Probably in the Holocene the divergent regime was replaced by the transform regime. This period saw the subsidence of the Kandalaksha graben to about 150 m and the formation of the Kolvitsa graben. The crystalline rocks surrounding Kandalaksha bay were involved in the subsidence which is reflected in the isobase curve of the glacioisostatic uplift of the area. The combined impact of the tectonic component and the glacioisostatic uplift led to a rise of tensions which discharge caused a high seismic activity of the Kandalaksha graben and its environs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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