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Mineral Resources of the Kaliningrad Region

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Terrestrial and Inland Water Environment of the Kaliningrad Region

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Mineral resources of the Kaliningrad Region are associated with the deposits of the platform cover: Paleozoic, oil, salt, and nonferrous and rare metals; Mesozoic, marls, limestones, and phosphorites; and Cenozoic, amber, brown coal, aggregates, peat, etc.

The original version of this chapter was revised. The erratum to this chapter is available at DOI 10.1007/698_2017_197.

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  1. A.P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI), 74, Sredny Prospect, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

    Vladimir Zhamoida & Elena Nesterova

  2. St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya Embankment, 13B, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation

    Vladimir Zhamoida

  3. P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS, Nakhimovsky Pr., 36, Moscow, 117997, Russia

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  4. Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, 14, A. Nevskogo Street, Kaliningrad, Russia

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Zhamoida, V., Sivkov, V., Nesterova, E. (2017). Mineral Resources of the Kaliningrad Region. In: Gritsenko, V.A., Sivkov, V.V., Yurov, A.V., Kostianoy, A.G. (eds) Terrestrial and Inland Water Environment of the Kaliningrad Region. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 65. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2017_115

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