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Latent Tectonics of the Central Russian Deformation Belt of the East European Platform

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The article considers the features of the tectonics of the Central Russian deformation belt located in the central part of the East European Platform. The belt is traced in a wide (up to 350 km) strip ENE for more than 1000 km. In studying this structure, remote and structural analysis methods were used. Based on the available data, analysis of the potential fields and interpretations of digital elevation maps, a set of tectonic diagrams of the Early Precambrian basement, protoplatform, and plate cover has been compiled. The features of the various tectonic floors of the platform are considered, and structures at different deep levels are compared. The analysis showed that the Central Russian belt is a long-lived structure, in which large tectonic zones are manifested, expressed in the modern relief surface and penetrating the basement and cover complexes. In the structure of the belt at different deep levels, combined elements of the tectonics of shear zones and transcrustal detachments are manifested, which developed in various dynamic settings: (i) collisional events at the end of the Paleoproterozoic (Svecofennian stage); (ii) transtensional rifting in the Riphean and Early Vendian (Early Baikal stage); (iii) development of inversion structures during formation of the Moscow syneclise basin (Caledonian–Early Hercynian stages); (iv) shearing in transpression and transtension conditions (Late Hercynian–modern stages). Deformations of sediments in the cover of the Central Russian belt are usually represented in latent form (dispersed low-amplitude faults), but there are also zones with a fault-fold structures. A detailed study of the Central Russian deformation zone, which forms the northern part of the belt of the same name, showed that it is characterized by elements of typical shear-zone tectonics. The structural and kinematic parageneses of the zone and models of its structure are considered. The structural and dynamic signs favorable for the accumulation of the hydrocarbons are noted. Since the Late Riphean and up to modern times, the Central Russian zone has experienced more than nine mobility pulses and at least six kinematic inversions. For the Late Hercynian, Alpine, and modern stages, three deformation stages of have been established, mainly associated with sinistral transpression, and local short-period dextral transtension and sinistral simple shearing.

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Kolodyazhny, S.Y., Poleshchuk, A.V. & Zykov, D.S. Latent Tectonics of the Central Russian Deformation Belt of the East European Platform. Geotecton. 55, 473–501 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852121040099

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