THE EURASIAN LATITUDINAL LINEAMENT 52°N: GEOPHYSICAL AND MINERAGENIC CHARACTERISTICS

Abstract

This article provides evidence for the existence of a Eurasian transregional latitudinal lineament. This lineament, 40-100 km wide, extends along 52° N from the Warsaw area to Sakhalin Island between 24° and 146° E over approximately 14 000 km. The recognition of this lineament is conditional to a certain extent, because it is based on geophysical data pertaining to three (Belorussian, Russian-Kazakh, and Far Eastern) segments that are separated by rather long intervals and in which the lineament is inferred from images taken from space and other data.