Ukrainian Shield

As Ukrainian Shield is a geological age, referred to the Precambrian declining Continental rest in the center and west of Ukraine in geology. The tectonically very stable shield belonged to the supercontinent of fennosarmatischen Archäoeuropa, (before about 440 Mill.Jahren ) collided in the Silurian with the super continent of Laurasia.

From a geographic perspective, the shield is a part of the huge Eastern European panel in which the Precambrian base is revealed, and accounts for about half of Ukrainian territory from.

In the landscape of the Ukrainian shield as wavy mountains or hills, the 100-200 km north of the Black Sea starts and draws some 700 km to the Polish border appears. Longer hills of this formation are the Podolic plate.

Geologic formations make this a stable shield of predominantly crystalline rocks, which limits the, consisting of younger sediments Russian panel to the west. Petro Graphically the Bohemian Massif related, it belongs to such as these to the Variscan or Thetysiden and lies at the end of this ancient orogenic belt, stretching from Morocco on the Central Pyrenees and the Massif Central, the Black Forest and the Rhenish Slate Mountains to the resin and the Polish highlands. The auflagernde on the edge of the shield Russian panel heard but - as the bedrock of Scandinavia and the Baltics - for the slightly younger Caledonides.