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Karelia stretches from the White Sea coast to the Gulf of Finland. It contains the two largest lakes in Europe, Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega. The Karelian Isthmus is located between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga. The highest point of Karelia, the 576 metres (1,890 ft) high Nuorunen, is located in the Russian side of the Maanselka hill region.
Karelia, respublika (republic), far northwestern Russia. It is bordered to the north by Nenets, to the east by the White Sea, to the south by Lake Ladoga, and to the west by Finland. The capital is Petrozavodsk, on the western shore of Lake Onega.
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As a part of the Fennoscandian Shield's ancient Karelian craton, most of the Republic of Karelia's surficial geology is Archaean or Paleoproterozoic, dated up to 3.4 billion years in the Vodlozero block.
May 1, 2015 · The Mesoarchean Kola-Karelia continent in the eastern Fennoscandian Shield includes three tectonic provinces, Kola, Karelia and Belomoria, that were formed by the Paleoarchean and Mesoarchean microcontinents.
- Michael V. Mints, Ksenia A. Dokukina, Ksenia A. Dokukina, Alexander N. Konilov, Tatiana V. Kaulina, ...
- 2015
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Nov 27, 2013 · The Archaean bedrock of the Karelia and Belomorian Provinces is mostly composed of granitoids and volcanic rocks of greenstone belts whose ages vary from c. 3.50 to 2.66 Ga. Neoarchaean rocks are dominant, since Paleoarchaean and Mesoarchaean granitoids (> 2.9 Ga) are only locally present.
- Pentti Hölttä, Esa Heilimo, Hannu Huhma, Asko Kontinen, Satu Mertanen, Perttu Mikkola, Jorma Paavola...
- 2014
Jan 1, 1997 · The Karelian granite–greenstone terrain is typified by the extensive development of Late Archaean (Lopian) greenstone belts, which represent the relicts of elongate zones preserved after Late Archaean granite formation, metamorphism, and folding events.
Jul 1, 2015 · ABSTRACT The Mesoarchean Kola-Karelia continent in the eastern Fennoscandian Shield includes three tectonic provinces, Kola, Karelia and Belomoria, that were formed by the Paleoarchean and...
