Main Ridge Complex, Murmansk Oblast, Russia (original) (raw)

Main Ridge Complex, Murmansk Oblast, Russiai

Latitude & Longitude:

67° North , 35° East (est.)

Estimate based on other nearby localities or region boundaries.

Reference for age:

Smol’kin, Valery F., and Artem V. Mokrushin. 2022. "Paleoproterozoic Layered Intrusions of the Monchegorsk Ore District: Geochemistry and U–Pb, Sm–Nd, Re–Os Isotope Analysis" Minerals 12, no. 11: 1432. https://doi.org/10.3390/min12111432

Mindat Locality ID:

426048

Long-form identifier:

mindat:1:2:426048:9

764780a7-b8d5-4237-95d1-626839481e6a

The Main Ridge Complex of the gabbro-anorthosites stretches out by 80 km to the near north-south at a width of 1–2 to 15–20 km and separates the Central Kola Block from the Belomorian Block (Belt). It is composed of several massifs, i.e., the Monchetundra and Chuna–Volche–Losevye–Medvezhye tundras.

List of minerals for each chemical element

Localities in this Region

• Murmansk Oblast

  • ⭔Chunatundra
  • ⭔Losevye–Medvezhyetundra

• Murmansk Oblast

  • ⭔Losevye–Medvezhyetundra
  • ⭔Monche-Tundra
  • ⭔Volchetundra

Other Regions, Features and Areas that Intersect

Eurasian Plate

• Baltic Shield
  • Kola CratonShield

Russia

• Murmansk Oblast
  • Kola PeninsulaPeninsula
  • Losevye–MedvezhyetundraComplex
  • Monche-TundraTundra
  • VolchetundraComplex

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