ILMENITE-BEARING METAPELITES OF THE POLAR URALS AND TAIMYR PENINSULA AND CONTINUATION OF NORTH URALIAN STRUCTURES

Abstract

The issue of relationships between the Urals and structures of adjacent regions arose even before the authors of the first geological map of European Russia considered it. In 1896, F.N. Chernyshev suggested that the Uralian mountain range is conjugated with folded structures of Novaya Zemlya via Pai-Khoi and Vaigach to form the single Urals–Novaya Zemlya folded region, which is also recognized now by most geologists. Based on similarity between rocks from these regions, Baklund assumed that Taimyr rather than Novaya Zemlya represents geological continuation of the Urals.