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The Role of the Semiluki–Lipetsk Fault in the Recent Structure of the Eastern Slope of the Voronezh Uplift

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One of the discontinuous faults in the south of the East European Platform is the Semiluki–Lipetsk fault extending submeridionally along the border of the recent Voronezh uplift and the Oka–Don Trough. Using the engineering-geological, geophysical, geodetic, geochemical, structural-geomorphological, etc. methods, accompanied by drilling and field studies, detailed studies have made it possible to determine the type of a discontinuous fault as an expansion in the participation of right-strike slip (dextral shear) stresses. It is associated with fracturing of bedrock and Quaternary sediments, landslides, and falls, including large gravitational-tectonic massifs, surface and underground karst, suffusion, and pull-apart basins. In general, these processes affect the geological stability of the site of the nuclear power plant, causing the development of negative processes. The reasons for the extension conditions in the Semiluki–Lipetsk fault zone are considered from two positions, the influence of pressure from the south from the Alpine orogen of the Caucasus and the connection with intra-platform deep processes that cause the Earth’s crust to extend beneath the Oka–Don Trough.

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Sukhanova, T.V., Stafeev, A.N. & Makarova, N.V. The Role of the Semiluki–Lipetsk Fault in the Recent Structure of the Eastern Slope of the Voronezh Uplift. Moscow Univ. Geol. Bull. 78, 12–21 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0145875223010192

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