The structural architecture of the footwall to the Main Uralian Fault, southern Urals

The Uralide orogen is a linear collisional belt formed during the Upper Paleozoic as a result of convergence between the East European Craton and outboard terranes, and accretion of intervening island arcs and obduction of oceanic crust onto the East European Craton. This paper presents a new structural subdivision of the southern Urals, to the west of the main suture zone, that puts this part of the mountain belt in a context similar to that of...