Is the Proterozoic Ladoga Rift (SE Baltic Shield) a rift?

• Published in: Precambrian Research
• Main Authors: Artemieva, Irina M., Shulgin, Alexey
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2015
• Subjects: Valday; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/26402/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/26402/1/Artemieva%20et.al.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2014.08.011

The southern part of the Baltic Shield hosts a series of mafic dykes and sills of Mesoproterozoic ages, including a ca. 1.53–1.46 Ga sheet-like gabbro-dolerite sills and the Salmi plateau-basalts from the Lake Ladoga region. Based on chiefly geochemical data, the region is conventionally interpreted...