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Recent stress field in the east of the Russian Plate and the Urals from macro- and mesostructural evidence

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This paper presents the first cartographic reconstruction of the recent stress field for the southeastern Russian Plate and the southern Urals based on computer analysis of the extensive body of measurements of mesostructural kinematic markers. Comparison of this reconstruction with macro- and mesostructural data on the dynamics of recent dislocations at the platform leads to the following conclusions: (1) spatial variations of the stress field reflect the pressure on the platform’s lithosphere from the Caucasus-Kopet Dagh collisional orogen and the intraplate linear rise of the recent Urals, presumably related to the Central Asian collision zone; (2) when passing through the heterogeneous crust of the platform, the collision stresses were distorted: in the vertical section, compression decreased upward (especially in strike-slip-stress regime) and even gave way to extension above uplifting hanging wall of thrust faults and crests of swells; in plan view, compression (including in the strike-slip-stress regime) increased at basement uplifts; on the contrary, extension increased near syneclises, as well as lateral squeezing directed here along strike-slip faults; (3) reconstructions based on data variable in scale and type (results of macro- and mesostructural observations processed by differing statistical means with leading use of computer programs) do not contradict but supplement one another. Taken together, they represent the complete pattern of the recent stress state; (4) our results can be used for applied purposes to introduce clarity into the kinematics of the known faults, especially for revealing strike-slip offsets and how the intraplate earthquakes relate to faults and flexures of a certain kinematics. In general, they indicate that tectonodynamic analysis is promising for solving regional tectonic problems.

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  1. Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevskii per. 7, Moscow, 119017, Russia

    M. L. Kopp, A. A. Kolesnichenko & A. I. Ioffe

  2. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimovskii pr. 36, Moscow, 117581, Russia

    V. E. Verzhbitsky

  3. Russian State Geological Prospecting University, ul. Miklukho-Maklaya 23, Moscow, 117873, Russia

    N. Yu. Vasil’ev

  4. Donetsk National Technical University, ul. Artema 58, Donetsk, 83001, Ukraine

    V. A. Korchemagin

  5. Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Bol’shaya Gruzinskaya ul. 10, Moscow, 123995, Russia

    T. Yu. Tveritinova & A. O. Mostryukov

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Original Russian Text © M.L. Kopp, V.E. Verzhbitsky, A.A. Kolesnichenko, T.Yu. Tveritinova, N.Yu. Vasil’ev, V.A. Korchemagin, A.O. Mostryukov, A.I. Ioffe, 2014, published in Geotektonika, 2014, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 23–43.

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Kopp, M.L., Verzhbitsky, V.E., Kolesnichenko, A.A. et al. Recent stress field in the east of the Russian Plate and the Urals from macro- and mesostructural evidence. Geotecton. 48, 273–291 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852114040062

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