Karelian orogeny

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The Karelian orogeny was an ancient Paleoproterozoic mountain-building event that shaped much of the bedrock and geological structure of the Fennoscandian Shield in northern Europe.

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instanceOf geological event
orogeny
affects Fennoscandian Shield bedrock NERFINISHED
geological structure of the Fennoscandian Shield
associatedWith Paleoproterozoic magmatism in Fennoscandia
Paleoproterozoic sedimentation in Fennoscandia
Paleoproterozoic tectonic convergence
causedBy plate tectonic convergence in the Paleoproterozoic
followedBy Svecofennian orogeny NERFINISHED
geologicalAge Paleoproterozoic
involves deformation of Archean cratons
folding of supracrustal sequences
thrust faulting
locatedIn Fennoscandian Shield NERFINISHED
Northern Europe
namedAfter Karelia NERFINISHED
occursIn Baltic Shield NERFINISHED
Karelia Province NERFINISHED
orogenyType mountain-building event
partOf Fennoscandian Shield geological history NERFINISHED
precededBy Archean crustal evolution in Fennoscandia
recordedIn metamorphic rocks of Russian Karelia
metamorphic rocks of northern Finland
metamorphic rocks of northern Sweden
relatedTo assembly of early Proterozoic continental crust in Baltica
global Paleoproterozoic orogenic cycles
resultedIn crustal thickening in Fennoscandia
deformation of early Proterozoic sedimentary basins
formation of mountain belts in the Fennoscandian Shield
metamorphism of Archean and Paleoproterozoic rocks
shaped distribution of metamorphic belts in northern Fennoscandia
regional structural grain of the Fennoscandian Shield
significance major early Proterozoic orogenic phase in Fennoscandia
studiedInDiscipline Precambrian geology
structural geology
tectonics
tectonicSetting accretionary orogeny
continental collision
timePosition early Proterozoic
timeSpan Paleoproterozoic Eon NERFINISHED

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Fennoscandian Shield orogenicHistory Karelian orogeny