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This paper considers the results of detailed paleoseismic and geological investigations in a key site in the wall of the Imandra Lake depression (Kola Peninsula Region, Northeast of the Fennoscandian Shield). Study of different groups of paleoseismic deformations developed in the fault zone and the application of new methods and techniques made it possible to identify a large seismotectonic zone characterized by great earthquakes at the end of the Late Glacial and in the Holocene. The investigation data are indicative of the necessity to estimate the seismic potential in the Kola Atomic plant area in a different way.
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Original Russian Text © S.B. Nikolaeva, A.A. Nikonov, S.V. Shvarev, M.V. Rodkin, 2016, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2016, Vol. 469, No. 2, pp. 199–203.
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Nikolaeva, S.B., Nikonov, A.A., Shvarev, S.V. et al. Comprehensive paleoseismic geological studies in a key site in southwestern Kola Peninsula (Northeast of the Fennoscandian Shield). Dokl. Earth Sc. 469, 656–660 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X16070138
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