The Kara Depression is a depression in the Extreme North of European Russia, by the mouth of Kara River, north-east of the Pay-Khoy Ridge (a continuation of the northern Ural Mountains). It is of diameter 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.
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