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Russian Geology and Geophysics

2004 year, number 1

THE SHORE REGION OF THE KOLA PENINSULA: STRUCTURAL ZONING AND PETROLEUM POTENTIAL

F.P. Mitrofanov, A.A. Predovsky, V.V. Lyubtsov, and I.V. Chikirev
Geological Institute, Kola Scientific Center of the RAS, 14 ul. Fersmana, Apatity, Murmansk Region, 184200, Russia
Keywords: Platform-Barents Sea shelf transition, forecast of petroleum potential, structural zoning, Upper Proterozoic deposits
Pages: 137-148

Abstract

The transitional region from Baltic Shield to Barents Sea petroliferous shelf, made up chiefly of Late Proterozoic sediments, is tectonically zoned. Three subparallel structural zones correspond to different parts of the large Timan rift trough of Riphean-Vendian age framing the Russian Platform in the northeast. The forecast of hydrocarbon deposits is different for each of the zones. It is important that the thrusts be of restricted occurrence and complicated structural traps of hydrocarbons be possible to exist, especially in the central zone and on its northeastern periphery. The correct forecast and prospecting require a considerable additional volume of geological and geophysical data obtained by the promising method of CMP-wave reflection over the entire transitional field, with the reported approach to their interpretation taken into account. Also, two parametric boreholes are required to be drilled northeast and southwest of the Trollfjord-Komagelv-Rybachii zone of deep disturbances.