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The Main Uralian Fault (MUF) runs north–south through the middle of the Ural Mountains for over 2,000 km. It separates both Europe from Asia and the three, or four, western megazones of the Urals from the three eastern megazones: namely the Pre-Uralian Foredeep, West Uralian, and the Central Uralian to the west, and the Tagil-Magnitogorskian, East Uralian, and Transuralian to the east. The Russian Plate is often included as the fourth megazone to the west. On the west side of the fault the rocks represent the sediments of the eastern continental margin zone of the European Plate (Baltica). On the east the rocks are accreted oceanic and island arc basalts, ultramafics and volcanics as well as the sediments of the western continental margin zones of the Siberian craton (Angara Plate) on the north and the Kazakhstan craton on the south.
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The MainUralianFault (MUF) runs north–south through the middle of the Ural Mountains for over 2,000 km. It separates both Europe from Asia and the three...
This list covers all faults and fault-systems that are either geologically important[clarification needed] or connected to prominent seismic activity.[clarification...
the former island arc complex and the continental margin formed the MainUralianFault, a major structure that runs for more than 2,000 km along the orogen...
Silurian-Devonian island arcs were accreted to Baltica along the MainUralianFault, east of which are metamorphosed fragments of volcanic arc mixed with...
the elevation of the mountains is unusually high. They formed during the Uralian orogeny due to the collision of the eastern edge of the supercontinent...
where the rock has been folded close to faults. The faults have two main orientations, with the largest faults being northwest-southeast trending, parallel...
Pechora-Kolva basin, Khoreiver basin and the Northern Pre-Urals. The Volgo-Uralian Block is a basement of Archean craton covered by younger sediments, making...
basin. Remnants found in the Alps in the North Penninic nappes. Volgo-Uralian Craton Yakutai Craton Yangtze Craton – Precambrian continental block located...
three main geographical sub-divisions: the Highlands and Islands is a diverse area which lies to the north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault; the...
Baltica collided with Siberia and Kazakhstania which resulted in the Uralian orogeny and Laurasia. Pangaea was finally amalgamated in the Late Carboniferous-Early...
Pembrokeshire to Kent. The main tectonic pressure was from the south or south-east, and there developed dextral strike-slip faulting. The Devon-Cornwall massif...
Caledonian orogeny. The Iapetus suture was a major weakness creating a volcanic fault in the central North Sea during the later Jurassic period. The Iapetus ocean...
surfaces show evidence of reactivation as low-angle extensional faults, but the main structures formed at this time were large-scale extensional detachments...
often breaking and sliding one over the other to form gigantic thrust faults. Crystalline basement rocks, which are exposed in the higher central regions...
now the Limagne plain. The main phase of subsidence continued until the Late Oligocene. The graben is controlled by faults on its western side and is...
valley of the river Uzh, but many tectonic divisions consider the Hornád fault system on the line Košice – Prešov the real geological boundary. The northern...
is not a trench but is a series of ascending scarps of faults where strike slippage is the main movement, due to further complexities discovered later...
foreland is dominated by normal faulting; most of these faults have been formed in the Neogene by plate flexure. Some of the faults are recognized to be much...
Central Siberian Plateau, and Verhoyansk-Chukotka collision zone. The Uralian orogeny in the west raised Ural Mountains, the informal boundary between...
compression (Pyrenean main phase). In the vicinity of the Muret Fault, a left-lateral strike-slip fault and a prolongation of the Toulouse Fault to the south,...
Massif Central is crossed by major fault zones dividing it into several spatial domains. The most important fault line is probably the NNE-SSW-striking...
Although the Netherlands seems to be a tectonically quiet area, a number of fault activities have been shown in the past. The latest strong earthquake, the...
mountains also form piedmont or fore-deep basins. Faults developed aligned south-southwest. These faults developed some pull-apart basins. In the Late Pliocene...
Fer Beach has an outcrop of columnar rhyolite that has been separated by faulting from the rest of the units. North of Archirondel Round Tower there are...
effects of two mountain-building episodes have left their mark in the faulting and folding of much of the Palaeozoic rock sequence. Superficial deposits...
motion of the spreading boundary, often expressed as system of transform faults. Generally the most significant earthquakes are in the transform zones of...
of the New Red Sandstone being deposited across central England, and in faulted basins in Cheshire. A basin developed in the Hampshire region around this...
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