Devonian organogenic buildings of the Urals and adjacent regions of East-Europian Platform and West Siberian

• Main Authors: B. I. Chuvashov, N. V. Sennikov, A. L. Anfimov, N. K. Bakharev, N. G. Izokh
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: A.N. Zavaritsky Institute of Geology and Geochemistry 2015
• Subjects: биогенная постройка; рифогенный известняк; рифт; коралловые луга; строматопороидеи; рифовые холмы; известняки; песчаники; biogenic building; reefogenic limestone; rift; “coral meadows”; stromatoporoids; reef hills; limestones; sandstones; Engineering geology. Rock mechanics. Soil mechanics. Underground construction; TA703-712; Barents Sea; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/67e0a18c7ad649818f09abc9f72c7ad8

Several reef-building systems occurred during Cambrian-Devonian on the Urals and adjacent regions of the East-European Platform. The first phase was manifested in the Lower Cambrian within a limited area of the western slope of the Urals. The next stage occured on the western slope of Urals during Early to Middle Devonian as a result of Caledonian orogeny. This reef complex is traced on the western slope of the Urals from the Ural River latitude on the south to Barents Sea on the north. Late Devonian bioherms on the territory of the East-European Platform are distributed over a wide area from the Western Urals to the Volga basin. On the east slope of the Urals and in West Siberia bioherms are attributed to marginal structures of depressions.