Dnieper-Donets Rift

Geological map of Ukraine.
  6. Dnieper-Donets Rift

The Dnieper-Donets Rift or Pripyat-Dnieper-Donets Rift (also referred as a "paleorift" and "aulacogen") is an east-west running rift in the Sarmatian Craton that developed and was most active in the Paleozoic. The rift extends from the Caspian Depression in Russia to northern Ukraine passing by the Donbass region. The rift separates the Voronezh Massif in the north from the Ukrainian Shield in south.[1]

The Dnepr-Donets Paleorift was the site of Devonian magmatic activity that begun in Late Frasnian and peaked in the Famennian caused by a mantle plume. Extensional tectonics were also most active during the Famennian.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Gorbatchev, R.; Bogdanova, S. (1993). "Frontiers in the Baltic Shield". Precambrian Research 64: 3–21.
  2. ↑ Wilson, M.; Lyashkevich, Z.M. (1996). "Magmatism and the geodynamics of rifting of the Pripyat-Dnieper-Donets rift, East European Platform". Tectonophysics 268: 65–81.
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