General features relating to the occurrence of mineral deposits in the Urals: What, where, when and why

This study of metallogeny of the Urals is strongly tied up with a stage-by-stage geodynamic analysis of the orogen. The analysis includes a revised understanding of geodynamic development of the Timanides (development of a deep sedimentary basin since the Mesoproterozoic, ocean formation and subduction in the Neoproterozoic and collision in the Late Ediacaran). For the Uralides, a new interpretation includes relationships between Tagil and...