Provenance and Stratigraphy of the Upper Carboniferous—Lower Permian Strata of October Revolution Island (Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago): Implications for Geological History of the Russian High Arctic

• Published in: Minerals
• Main Authors: Victoria Ershova, Andrei Prokopiev, Daniel Stockli, Daria Zbukova, Anton Shmanyak
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: geochronology; U-Pb dating; Late Paleozoic; Arctic; Kara Sea; Severnaya Zemlya; October Revolution Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/min12101325

Small depressions across the north-eastern part of October Revolution Island (Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, Kara terrane) are filled with continental terrigenous rocks, dated as Upper Carboniferous–Lower Permian in age based on palynological data. These rocks overlie Ordovician volcaniclastic rocks...