White Sea Rift System
Kerets Graben
Location of Kerets Graben, one of many grabens in the White Sea.
The White Sea Rift System is a complex of
magmas. In the Late Cenozoic the rift system was reactivated again resulting in the formation of the modern White Sea.[1]
The White Sea Rift System includes the following rifts:[1]
- the Onega–Kandalaksha Rift (its northwestern graben is known as the Kandalaksha Trough or Kandalaksha Graben).[2] The Kandalksha graben is about 220 km long and 60 km broad. Its southwestern slopes are steeper than its northwestern slopes.[3]
- the Kerets–Leshukonsky Rift (including the Kerets Graben).
- the Barents Rift.[note 1]
Many of the grabens are filled with Jotnian sediments.[1]
Notes
References
- ^ S2CID 129043120.
- ISBN 978-0122898709.
- ^ a b Zhuravlev, V.A.; Shipilov, E.V. (2008). "Structure of the Basins of the White Sea Rift Systems". Marine Geology. 48 (1): 123–131.
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