Some details of the structure of the northern centricline of the Kos’yu-Un’ya syncline (Ilych River, Northern Urals)

Abstract

The latest most detailed geological map of the Upper Pechora transverse subsidence, compiled by V. V. Yudin, shows an undisturbed western wing passing into the centricline of the Kosyu-Un’ya syncline, composed of Middle Ordovician and Silurian deposits falling to the southeast in the area of the middle course of the Ilych River (from the mouth of the Shezhimyu River to Anna-Di Island). Detailed studies of the sections uncovered in this area, as well as analysis of the literary and field materials of the predecessors, allowed updating ideas about the stratigraphic confinement of some strata and the structure of the area as in general. According to our data, deposits from the Middle Ordovician to the Ludlov unit of the Silurian are revealed within the northern centricline of the Kos’yu-Un’ya syncline, which are divided into three block scales (Shezhimdisk, Mikolael and Ust’Bol’shekosyu), bounded by faults with a plane of incidence inclined to the east-southeast at angles of 30–40°. Tectonic confinement of the complexly dislocated Lower Devonian sediments of the Valgan formation observed at the northern centricline of the fold to the east of the mouth of the Kos’yu River and previously referred to the eastern wing of the Kos’yu-Un’ya syncline, is currently being discussed. According to their lithological composition, they belong to the Shantym facies complex and are probably already part of another tectonic structure — the Valgan «monocline» of the eastern subzone of the Upper Pechora transverse subsidence.