Kola_Province

Kola Province

Kola Province

Geological area of the Fennoscandian Shield spanning Russia, Finland, and Norway

For the alkaline-ultramafic rocks of Permian age, see Kola Alkaline Province.

The Kola Province (also known as Kola Block and Kola Domain) is an area of the Fennoscandian Shield spanning an area near the borders of Russia, Finland, and Norway, including the bulk of its namesake Kola Peninsula. The continental crust that makes up the province is a collage of Mesoarchean and Neoarchean age with some lesser amounts being of Paleoproterozoic age.[1]

Geological map of the Scandinavian Peninsula and Fennoscandia:
  Archean rocks of the Karelia, Belomorian, and Kola domains
  Proterozoic rocks of the Karelia and Kola domains
  Svecofennian Domain
  Transscandinavian Igneous Belt
  Timanide Orogen
  Sveconorwegian Domain inc. the Western Gneiss Region
  Caledonian nappes

References

  1. [1]
    Hölttä, Pentti; Balagansky, Victor; Garde, Adam A.; Mertanen, Satu; Peltonen, Petri; Slabunov, Alexander; Sorjonen-Ward, Peter; Whitehouse, Martin (2008). "Archean of Greenland and Fennoscandia". Episodes. 31 (1): 13–19.


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