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Viivikonna

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Viivikonna 

an urban-type settlement in the Estonian SSR. It is located 8 km southwest of the Vaivara railroad stop on the Tallinn-Leningrad line. Population, 2,200 (1968). The settlement has oil shale mining.



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In 1946 it obtained another oil shale mine, the Viivikonna mine, which was supposed to supply oil shale to the gas plant to be established in Sillamae.
It is represented in the Viivikonna Formation (Sal), Kullsberg Limestone Formation (Kal), Lang&ra Formation (Ka4-Hi 1), and is especially abundant in the Boda Limestone Formation (Ka4-Hil).
INTRODUCTION The Viivikonna Formation of the Kukruse Regional Stage is the main stratigraphic unit containing oil shale (kukersite) in the Ordovician strata of Estonia (Fig.
 
 
 
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