The Russian plate is the central part of the East European platform , located between the Baltic Shield in the north, the Ukrainian Shield in the south, and the Ural Trough in the east.
Structure and Formation History
In the west of the Russian Plate in the vaults of the Belarusian Anteclise and the Voronezh Anteclise, the foundation lies near the surface of the Earth, sometimes forming outcrops.
In the east of the plate, the largest is the Volga-Ural anteclise . The central part of the Russian plate is occupied by the Moscow syneclise , which in the northeast passes into the Mezen .
On the eastern edge of the plate, the Kamsko-Belsky pericraton trough, on the western - the Baltic-Transnistrian zone of pericratonic troughs, which include the Baltic syneclise , the Podlaska-Brest depression .
In the southeast of the platform, the Caspian depression (the deepest). Between the anteclises is a number of young (Paleozoic) aulacogens: Pripyat-Donetsk, Vyatka, Don-Medvedev. In the Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic, the Pripyat-Dnieper syneclise was formed over the Pripyat-Donetsk aulacogen . Before the mountain structures of the Urals and the Carpathians , the Pre-Ural and Pre-Carpathian marginal troughs formed.