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The paper considers the Neogean evolution of the North American and North Asian cratons. Ophiolite zones and major faults on the western margin of North Asia and the southeastern margin of North America are interpreted as zigzag outlines of Riphean-Paleozoic stable blocks that rifted off the Rodinia supercontinent and were offset along transform faults. The original boundaries of the blocks were smoothed out by later tectonism and are poorly pronounced in the present-day framework.
Reentrants of any type, age, and facies are zones favorable for oil and gas accumulation as their folded sedimentary complexes may be both source and reservoir rocks.