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Geology of the Eastern Arctic Islands and Continental Fridge of the Arctic Seas

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Expeditions carried out in the Arctic in recent years resulted in the accumulation of a significant amount of new information, which allowed better understanding the geology of the islands and coastal areas of the Arctic Ocean. Overviews on geology and evolution for the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, the Taimyr Peninsula, the New Siberian Islands, the Wrangel Island and the areas of the Verkhoyansk Fold-thrust Belt adjacent to the Arctic Ocean, the Kolyma-Omolon Superterrane and the Chukchi-New Siberian Fold Belt include tectonic-stratigraphic maps showing petrographic composition, paleogeographic and lithogeodynamic conditions for the formation of sedimentary complexes, the phasing of tectonic and magmatic events.

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Petrov, O.V. et al. (2021). Geology of the Eastern Arctic Islands and Continental Fridge of the Arctic Seas. In: Petrov, O.V., Smelror, M. (eds) Tectonics of the Arctic. Springer Geology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46862-0_6

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