The Significance of N.S. Shatsky's Works on the Tectonics of Ancient Platforms and Their Petroleum Resources from a Modern Viewpoint

摘要

The Riphean-Early Paleozoic evolution of the sedimentary cover of the East European Platform and the problems of the platform's petroleum resources are discussed. Special emphasis is placed on the fundamental importance of N.S. Shatsky's ideas of comparative tectonics of ancient platforms and these ideas' contribution to the modern principles of basin analysis, which are vital in forecasting and prospecting for hydrocarbon resources.