REGARDING THE NEED TO BUILD A NEW SERIES OF GEOLOGICAL MAPS AND MINERAL MAPS OF THE CRYSTALLINE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE GEOLOGICAL MAP OF UKRAINE ON A SCALE OF 1:200 000

The shortcomings of the Geological maps in Ukraine and maps of the minerals of the crystalline basement of the Ukrainian Shield of the State Geological Map of Ukraine (scale 1:200 000) published in Ukraine are considered in terms of their compliance with modern views on the structure and development of the Earth's crust in the Early Precambrian (Archean-Early Proterozoic). It is shown that, despite the basic requirement of the Early Precambrian Section of the National Stratigraphic Committee of Ukraine that the Precambrian formations of the Ukrainian Shield should be age-divided based mainly on isotopic geochronology, this did not become the basis for the preparation of geological maps.