The Kara Depression is a
depression in the
Extreme North
The Extreme North or Far North (russian: Крайний Север, Дальний Север) is a large part of Russia located mainly north of the Arctic Circle and boasting enormous mineral and natural resources. Its total area is about , ...
of
European Russia, by the mouth of
Kara River
The Kara (russian: Ка́ра) is a river draining to the Arctic Kara Sea in Russia. It flows through the Pai-Khoi Range in the Polar Ural region, and forms parts of the borders between the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Nenets Autonomo ...
, north-east of the
Pay-Khoy Ridge (a continuation of the northern
Ural Mountains
The Ural Mountains ( ; rus, Ура́льские го́ры, r=Uralskiye gory, p=ʊˈralʲskʲɪjə ˈɡorɨ; ba, Урал тауҙары) or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western ...
). It is of diameter 50–60 km and filled with
Quaternary deposits.
[Structure of the Kara depression]
International Geology Review Volume 18, Issue 1, 1976, (a translation of the article "О строении Карской депрессии", ''Sovetskaya Geologiya'', 1976, no. 3)
The depression is part of the
Pechora coal basin The Pechora coal basin (Печорский угольный бассейн) is located in the Extreme North of European Russia. In covers nearly 90,000 km2 in Komi Republic and Nenets Autonomous Okrug of the Arkhangelsk Oblast.
The basin is ...
.
References
Geography of Russia
Landforms of Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Coal mining regions in Russia
Depressions of Russia
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