Karelidit
Karelidit is the ancient
mountain chain, which located betweeb
Eastern Finland and
Lapland. It formed current hill zone of Eastern Finland and Lapland's arctic hills splitting the Centre Finland. Karelidit formed about two billion years ago, when thick
sandstone sediments rocked and then folded when continental plates smashed. This made a ridge made of quartzite, which has stood there not caring of ice ages consume and weathering. Mountains in the very arm-Lapland belong to the newer
Scandis mountain group, and because of that they are higher than other Finnish mountains. The third mountain group is Svecofennides, which stood there from
Southern Finland to
Sweden.