Precambrian Geology Of The Ussr

Developments in Precambrian Geology 9 PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF THE USSR DEVELOPMENTS IN PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY Advisory Editor B.F. Windley Further titles in this series 1. B.F. WINDLEY and S.M. NAQVl (Editors) Archaean Geochemistry 2. D.R. HUNTER (Editor) Precambrian of the Southern Hemisphere 3. K.C. CONDIE Archean Greenstone Belts 4. A. KRONER (Editor) Precambrian Plate Tectonics 5. Y.P. MEL'NIK Precambrian Banded Iron-formations. Physicochemical Conditions of Formation 6.A.F. TRENDALL and R.C. MORRIS (Editors) Iron-Formation: Facts and Problems 7. B. NAGY, R. WEBER, J.C. GUERRERO and M. SCHIDLOWSKI (Editors) Developments and Interactions of the Precambrian Atmosphere, Lithosphere and Biosphere 8. S.M. NAQVI (Editor) Precambrian Continental Crust and its Economic Resources DEVELOPMENTS IN PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY 9 PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY OF THE USSR Edited by D.V. RUNDQVIST Institute of Ph ysics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, B. Gruzinskaya 10, 723810 Moscow, Russia and F.P. MITROFANOV Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology, Academy of Sciences of Russia, nab. Makarova 2, Leningrad 199164, Russia Translated by C. Gillen The University of Edinburgh ELSEVIER, Amsterdam - London - N e w York - Tokyo 1993 ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHERS B.V. Sara Burgerhartstraat 25 P.O. Box 211,1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands L i b r a r y o f C o n g r e s s Cataloging-ln-Publlcatlon Data D o k e m b r i i s k a h g e o l o g l h SSSR. English. P r e c a m b r i a n g e o l o g y o f t h e USSR / e d i t e d b y D.V. R u n d q v i s t and F.P. M i t r o f a n o v . p. cm. ( D e v e l o p m e n t s i n P r e c a m b r i a n g e o l o g y ; 9) T r a n s l a t i o n o f . Dokembr i i s k a h geo l o g i SSSR. I n c l u d e s b l b l i o g r a p h i c a l r e f e r e n c e s and i n d e x . ISBN 0-444-89380-6 1. G e o l o g y , S t r a t i g r a p h i c - - P r e c a m b r i a n . 2. G e o l o g y - - S o v i e t U n i o n . I. R u n d k v i s t . D. V. ( D m i t r i l V a s i l ’ e v i c h ) 11. M i t r o f a n o v . F. P. 111. T i t l e . I V . S e r i e s . PE653.D643513 1992 551.7’1’0947--dC20 92-8594 CIP -- Precambrian Geology of the USSR was first published in Russian in 1988 as “Dokembriyskaya geologiya SSSR” by Nauka Publishers, Leningrad. ISBN 5-02-024367-1,440 pp. Q 1988 Nauka, Leningrad ISBN: 0-444-893806 0 1993 Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Copyright and Permissions Department, P.O. Box 521,1000 AM Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Special regulations for readers in the U.S.A. - This publication has been registered with the Copyright Clearance Center Inc. (CCC), Salem, Massachusetts. Information can be obtained from the CCC about conditions under which photocopies of parts of this publication may be made in the U.S.A. All other copyright questions, including photocopying outside of the U.S.A., should be referred to the publisher. No responsibility is assumed by the publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Printed in The Netherlands V FOREWORD Precambrian Geology of the USSR is an attempt to draw together and generalise new geological, geochronological, petrological and geophysical material for the two fundamental continental geostructures within