Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- craton
- Named after
- Siberia
- Country
- Russia
- Area
- 4000000
- Highest point
- Mount Kamen
- Image
- Siberian craton location.jpg
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- located in/on physical feature
- Eurasian Plate
- discoverer or inventor
- Alexey Borissiak
- Commons category
- Siberian Craton
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Encyclopedic overview
Current location of the remains of the ancient landmass of Siberia in north Asia Siberia, also known as Siberian Craton, Angaraland (or simply Angara) and Angarida, is an ancient craton in the heart of Siberia. Today forming the Central Siberian Plateau, it formed an independent landmass prior to its fusion into Pangaea during the late Carboniferous-Permian. The Verkhoyansk Sea , a passive continental margin, was fringing the Siberian Craton to the east in what is now the East Siberian Lowland.
Angaraland was named in the 1880s by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess who erroneously believed that in the Paleozoic Era there were two large continents in the Northern Hemisphere: "Atlantis", which was North America connected to Europe via a peninsula (Greenland and Iceland), and "Angara-land", which would have been eastern Asia, named after the Angara River in Siberia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Siberia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.