Hogland Series

Location of Gogland within the Baltic Sea.

The Hogland Series are a series of Subjotnian sedimentary rocks exposed in the island of Gogland (Swedish: Hogland), the Sommer Islands and the nearby sea bottom in the Gulf of Finland. The series encompass quartz-rich conglomerates and breccias plus some volcanic rocks of mafic composition in the form of lava flows and some more silica-rich igneous rocks including quartz-porphyry. The porphyries, which lie at the top the pile, share their origin with the rapakivi granites found nearby.[1] An exhumed Subjotnian erosion surface is exposed on the island.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Amantov, Alexey; Hagenfeldt, Stefan; Söderberg, Per (1995). "The Mesoporterozoic to Lower Palaeozoic sedimentary bedrock sequence in the northern Baltic Proper, Åland Sea, Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga". Proceedings of the Third Marine Geological Conference “The Baltic”. pp. 19–25.
  2. ↑ Laitakari, I.; Rämö, T.; Suominen, V.; Niin, M.; Stepanov, K.; Amantov, A. (1996). "Subjotnian: Rapakivi granites and related rocks in the Gulf of Finland" (PDF). Geological Survey of Finland, Special Paper 21: 59–97. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
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