Main Uralian Fault
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The Main Uralian Fault (MUF) runs north–south through the middle of the
Angara Plate) on the north and the Kazakhstan craton
on the south.
Formation
The Main Uralian Fault formed in the
Pangea
was formed and the Ural Mountains were raised up.
Dip
There is
seismic evidence that the Main Uralian Fault extends very deep, in excess of 15 kilometres (9.3 mi), into the crust and dips to the east as a result of the subduction zone that formed in the Silurian along the western margin of the Siberian craton. This is supported by evidence of a north-south magmatic axis in the southern Urals that runs through the East Uralian megazone.[5]
Notes
- ^ D. Brown & H. Echtler. The Urals. In: R. C. Selley, L. R. M. Cocks & I. R. Plimer (eds.), Encyclopedia of Geology, Vol. 2. Elsevier, 2005. P 86-95.
- ^ L. R. M. Cocks & T. H. Torsvik. European geography in a global context from the Vendian to the end of the Palaeozoic Archived 2009-07-31 at the Wayback Machine. In Gee, D. G. & Stephenson, R. A. (eds), European Lithosphere Dynamics. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 32, 83–95.
- ^ Victor N. Puchkov. The evolution of the Uralian orogen. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2009; v. 327; p. 161-195.
- ^ D. Brown et al. Mountain building processes during continent–continent collision in the Uralides. Earth-Science Reviews, Volume 89, Issues 3-4, August 2008, Pages 177-195.
- doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00049-8.)
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Further reading
- Brown, D., Juhlin, C., Alvarez-Marron, J., Perez-Estaun, A., and Oslianski, A. (1998). "Crustal-scale structure and evolution of an arc-continent collision zone in the southern Urals, Russia". Tectonics. 17 (2): 158–171. doi:10.1029/98tc00129.)
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - Juhlin, C., Knapp, J. H., Kashubin, S., and Bliznetsov, M. (1996). "Crustal evolution of the Middle Urals based on seismic reflection and refraction data" (PDF). Tectonophysics. 264 (1–4): 21–34. doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00115-1.)
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - Juhlin, C. Friberg, M., Echtler, H.P., Hismatulin, T., Rybalka, A., Green, A.G., and Ansorge, J. (1998). "Crustal structure of the Middle Urals: Results from the (ESRU) Europrobe seismic reflection profiling in the Urals experiments". Tectonics. 17 (5): 710–725. doi:10.1029/98TC02762.)
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - Kruse, S. & McNutt, M. (1988). "Compensation of Paleozoic orogens: a comparison of the Urals to the Appalachians". Tectonophysics. 154 (1–2): 1–17. .
- Poupinet, G., Thouvenot, F., Zolotov, E.E., Matte, Ph., Egorkin, A.V., and Rackitiv, V.A. (1997). "Teleseismic tomography across the middle Urals: lithospheric trace of an ancient continental collision". Tectonophysics. 276 (1): 19–33. doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00045-0.)
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - Puchkov, V.N. (1987). "New Data on the Tectonics of the Urals". Geotectonics. 21: 108–116.
- Puchkov, V.N. (1993). "The Paleoceanic Structures of the Ural mountains". Geotectonics. 27: 184–196.
- Puchkov, V.N. (1997). "Tectonics of the Urals: Modern Concepts". Geotectonics. 31: 294–312.
- Zonenshain, L., Kuzmin, M. and Natapov, L. (1990), "Uralian Foldbelt", in Page, B. M. (ed.), Geology of the USSR: A Plate Tectonic Synthesis, Geodynamics series, v. 21, Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union, pp. 27–54, ISBN 978-0-87590-521-1)
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External links
- Map of Main Uralian Fault showing megazones Zavacky, J. "The Urals: A Late Paleozoic Mountain Belt"