Postglacial tectonics and palaeoseisic dislocation in the Kovda area (Kandalaksha Bay, eastern Fennoscandian Shield)

• Published in: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Nikolaeva, Svetlana B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: St Petersburg State University 2019
• Subjects: postglacial faults; palaeoearthquakes; seismic dislocations; shifting of rock masses; Holocene; Kandalaksha Graben; Kolvitsky Graben; White Sea; Fennoscandian Shield; Kandalaksha; Kovda; Fennoscandian; Lapland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu07.2019.304; http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16758

The Kandalaksha Graben of the White Sea is one of the most active tectonic zones of the eastern part of the Fennoscandian crystalline shield. Active faults of the Kandalaksha Graben derive from the axial zone of the Paleoproterozoic mobile Lapland Granulite Belt and the Riphean paleorift system. The...