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

↑ Gorbatchev, R.; Bogdanova, S. (1993). "Frontiers in the Baltic Shield". Precambrian Research. 64: 3–21. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ 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. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

Orogens	Acadian Alpine Belomorian Cadomian Caledonian Carpathian Dalslandian Gothian Grampian Hallandian-Danopolonian Hellenic Laxfordian Lopian Saamian Scandian Scourian Timanide Svecofennian Sveconorwegian Uralian Variscan

Mountain ranges	Alps Apennines Caucasus Dinaric Alps Harz Massif Central Ore Mountains Pyrenees Urals Western Carpathians

Oceanic basins	Atlantic Ocean Arctic Ocean Bay of Biscay Black Sea Mediterranean Sea Norwegian Sea

Intracontinental basins and grabens	Aquitaine Basin Barents Basin Baltic Sea Basin Central Lowlands Dnieper–Donets Rift Ebro Basin European Cenozoic Rift System Limagne Graben Mezen Basin Molasse Basin Moscow Basin North Sea Basin Oslo Rift Pannonian Basin Paris Basin Peri-Caspian Depression Timan-Pechora Basin White Sea Rift System

Tectonic plates and microcontinents	Adriatic Plate Aegean Sea Plate Anatolian Plate Eurasian Plate Iberian Plate Jan Mayen Microcontinent Misian Plate Pelso Plate Tisza Plate

Terranes	Armorican terrane Avalonia Baltica Cimmeria East European Craton Fennoscandian Craton Sarmatian Craton Volgo–Uralia

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