East European Craton: Early Precambrian History and 3D Models of Deep Crustal Structure

14. 3D deep structure of the Early Precambrian crust in the East European craton: A synthesis
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Published:May 01, 2015
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Michael V. Mints, 2015. "14. 3D deep structure of the Early Precambrian crust in the East European craton: A synthesis", East European Craton: Early Precambrian History and 3D Models of Deep Crustal Structure, Michael V. Mints, Ksenia A. Dokukina, Alexander N. Konilov, Irina B. Philippova, Valery L. Zlobin, Pavel S. Babayants, Elena A. Belousova, Yury I. Blokh, Maria M. Bogina, William A. Bush, Peter A. Dokukin, Tatiana V. Kaulina, Lev M. Natapov, Valentina B. Piip, Vladimir M. Stupak, Arsen K. Suleimanov, Alexey A. Trusov, Konstantin V. Van, Nadezhda G. Zamozhniaya
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In this chapter, the available seismic and geological data are integrated and applied to the East European craton as a whole.
The deep structure and seismic characteristics of the granite-greenstone crust in the Archean microcontinents vary significantly. The unevenly distributed and vaguely oriented short reflections are occasionally gathered into packets. The intensely reflecting bodies with high acoustic impedance correspond to greenstone belts reaching many tens of kilometers in extent. The oval acoustically transparent domains in the middle-crustal level are composed of moderately dense rocks that correspond to granitoid plutons. The total thickness of the crust in granite-greenstone domains can vary...
- Archean
- continental crust
- cratons
- crust
- crust-mantle boundary
- Europe
- geodynamics
- geophysical methods
- geophysical profiles
- geophysical surveys
- greenstone belts
- igneous rocks
- lower crust
- mantle
- metamorphic belts
- metamorphic rocks
- microcontinents
- orogenic belts
- Paleoproterozoic
- Precambrian
- Proterozoic
- Russian Platform
- seismic methods
- seismic profiles
- surveys
- Svecofennian Orogeny
- tectonics
- terranes
- three-dimensional models
- upper mantle
- upper Precambrian