Santonian to Palaeocene tectonics of the East-European craton and adjacent areasстатья
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Аннотация:During the Senonian to Palaeocene times the East European Craton or Platform was effected by polyphase regional compression stresses. It led to different kind intracratonic compressional tectonics including gentle lithosphere folding (buckling) with spacing close to 500-600 km, origin (or reactivation) of inversion structures mainly along former rifted basins, syn-compressional rapid subsidence of some former rifted basins like Dnieper Basin, acceleration of salt diapirism in the Peri-Caspian Basin, possible compression-related (impactogen) rifting in the Ukrainian Shield. The compression related intracratonic tectonics coincided with collision events along Tethyan belt along Pontides and other zones. The Laramide orogeny was widespread round the Earth, and it could have led to global environmental changes at the Cretaceous/Palaeogene boundary.