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The article discusses modern methods of quantitative assessment of hydrocarbon resource structure elements in large oil and gas basins. The assessment is based on the fundamental law of hydrocarbon accumulation distribution by mass – the truncated Pareto distribution. The procedure includes the estimation of the parameters of the truncated Pareto distribution, the formation of a set of values ​​of deposit resources and the forecast of the distribution of the quantity and their total resources by size intervals, the formation of a spatial distribution of deposits and the transformation of a set of deposits into a set of fields, the forecast of the distribution of the quantity and total resources by size intervals for deposits and fields, as well as the distribution of fields by the number of deposits in them. An analytical approach and an approach based on the simulation modeling method are described.

Petrographic and mineralogical studies of the main varieties of rocks composing the Burpalа massif have been carried out: peralkaline (nepheline) syenites, alkaline syenites, quartz syenites. The emphasis was placed on the macro- and microelement composition of mafic minerals present in all types of rocks: clinopyroxenes, micas, amphiboles. Studies have shown that the composition of mafic minerals fractionates within each group of rocks, but in individual groups - peralkaline, alkaline and quartz syenites, their compositions do not fit into a single trend of evolution. Based on these observations, it can be assumed that the formation of the massif occurred under conditions of pulsed introduction of magma portions of various degrees of differentiation, as well as the probability of contamination of the first portion of magma with subsequent formation of quartz syenites.

The results of a geochemical study of the Middle Member of the Vendian Kharayutekh Formation rocks and dispersed organic matter (OM) on the Chekurovka Anticline (Kharaulakh Anticlinorium of the Verkhoyansk Fold—Nappe Belt) are presented. Its rocks are established to be unevenly enriched with OM, the maximum modern organic carbon content (C_org) reaches 2.6%. The composition and distribution of chemofossils in saturated and aromatic bitumen fractions were studied using GC and GC—MS. Alkanes, steranes and terpanes, dibenzothiophenes and aromatic steroids distributions as well as light isotopic composition of C_org indicate the bacterial-algal origin of the OM; the rocks of the Middle Kharayutekh Member had the high initial generative potential. The analysis of pyrograms, bitumen characteristics, distribution of phenanthrenes and dibenzothiophenes allowed to estimate the regional catagenesis of the Vendian OM on this territory corresponds to the dry gas window. Studied bitumens are revealed to be residual autochthonous and paraautochthonous with biodegraded hydrocarbons. The local influence of magmatism on the content and composition of bitumens in the contact zone of the studied section is shown. The thick diabase sill intrusion led to the source rock generative potential exhausting in the upper part of the section already in Cambrian. The considered information gives reason to assume that accumulations of highly viscous heavy oils and solid bitumens, genetically related to the Middle Kharayutekh Formation OM might be expected in the Vendian and Cambrian carbonate and terrigenous reservoirs in the north of the Pre-Verkhoyansk Trough. The preservation of gas and condensate deposits is unlikely.

A comprehensive analysis of the digital elevation model (SRTM) was performed within the North-Stanovoy metallogenic zone located in the northern part of the Stanovoy volcano-plutonic belt. The correlation of the calculated parameters with some geological and geophysical characteristics of the studied territory was shown. Spatial relationships of relief features with the location of gold deposits and ore occurrences of the metallogenic zone were analyzed in detail. A number of features were outlined that can serve as a basis for identifying potentially gold-bearing areas of the rank of an ore cluster.

The Bilibisky massif is a Mesozoic intrusion located in the southeastern part of the Aldan high-potassic magmatic province of the Aldan-Stanovoy shield of the Siberian platform. This massif consists of alkali-mafic-ultramafic and granite-syenite phases, which form a concentric structure with the rocks becoming more silica-rich from edges to the center. Earlier studies proposed that these phases have been either formed from different parental magmas or derived from a common lamproitic magma via magmatic differentiation. In this study, we examined a representative set of rock samples from the Bilibinsky massif: phlogopite clinopyroxenites, melashonkinites, shonkinites, alkali syenites, quartz syenites, granites. Mineralogical-petrographic, geochemical and isotope-geochemical data implies that the differentiation series of lamproitic magma includes rocks from clinopyroxenites to shonkinites and, possibly, alkaline syenites. Quartz syenites and granites, which form the second phase, belong to a separate magmatic series. According to geochemical data and the isotopic composition of Nd, Sr and O in quartz syenites and granites, the magmas, which formed the syenites and granites, were rather derived from the lower crust than from lithospheric mantle and originated due to either crustal melting during the mantle-derived magmatism or collisional tectonics at the Southern margin of Siberian platform in Mesozoic. Rocks of the lamproite series allows us to consider it as an example of complete differentiation of lamproite melt, which presents the stages of cotectic crystallization: olivine + chromite, olivine + clinopyroxene + chromite, olivine + clinopyroxene + phlogopite, clinopyroxene + phlogopite + leucite, clinopyroxene + phlogopite + K-feldspar. Spot analyses of trace elements in clinopyroxene, phlogopite, leucite and apatite allowed for estimation of melt-mineral partitioning coefficients in such a system.

The paper gives a brief description of the system of spatially spaced laser strainmeters, united by an accurate time system into a single network, installed permanently on the cape Schultz in Primorsky Krai, on the cape Svobodny at Sakhalin Island, in an underground mine near Krasnokamensk, Transbaikalia. In the complex, this system represents the eastern part of the planetary laser-interferometric seismoacoustic observatory, which additionally includes laser strainmeters, located in the western part of Russia. The paper discusses a technique for determining of the signal, recorded sequentially by these laser strainmeters. Using the results of detecting the location of the signal and the obtained data of a two-coordinate laser strainmeter allows us to restore not only the place of origin of the recorded signals, but also to determine its amplitude at each measurement point, the magnitude of the signal at the place of its generation, aperture and attenuation on the propagation paths from the source to the receivers.

Using the example of active faults in the high mountainous part of the Gorny Altai (South Chuya and Kubadu fault zones) and the Lena River delta (Primorsky Fault Zone), active fault zones in the conditions of permafrost development were studied using the electrotomography technique. The method was shown to be effective in identifying active fault zones to depths up to the first hundred metres in permafrost conditions. However, the presence of icy rock with a resistivity greater than 100 kOhm·m limits its application due to the shielding effect of the insulating layer. The main criterion for identifying active faults in geoelectrical sections are subvertical zones of reduced resistivity against a background of high resistivity permafrost layers. This concerns both relatively young seismic ruptures formed during the Chuya earthquake (Ms=7.3) 27.09.2003 in the South Chuya Fault Zone and more aged Holocene fault scarps in the zones of the Kubadru and Primorskiy faults. At the same time, resistivity values in the zones of active faults and seismic ruptures are too high to assume their saturation with free water. The decrease in resistivity in such zones relative to the host permafrost frame may be due to: 1) increased rocks and sediments fracturing; 2) occurrence of thinly fractured material in the core fault zones, including in cracks, where physically bound non-freezing water is concentrated; 3) residual thermal anomalies in the case of modern activations, so that negative temperatures have already been restored, but the process of frozen strata degradation is not fully completed yet; 4) saturation of the geological section with sandy-silty material as a result of the development of liquefaction and fluidization processes during earthquakes. The revealed regularities can be used not only to confirm the zones of morphologically distinctive segments of active faults, but also to search for their buried segments in the areas of permafrost development typical for seismically active high mountain and Arctic regions of Russia and worldwide.

The long history of diverse magmatism of the Omolon Craton Terrane (OM) is traced from the Paleoproterozoic to the Late Miocene. New isotope-geochronological (U-Pb, 40Ar/39Ar) dating and geochemical data allow us to reliably identify the nine main episodes and geodynamic settings of magmatism, as well as to discuss in detail potential sources of detrital zircon populations in sedimentary rocks of Northeastern Russia. The earliest manifestations of fleck gneisses of the anorogenic Upper Оmolon complex with an age of about 1.9 billion years reflect the processes of rifting and the beginning of destruction of the pre-Riphean basement with an age of about 3.2 billion years. The ongoing rifting of the OM is traced in the Riphean, when swarms of dikes and small bodies of the gabbro-diabase Strelkin complex were intruded. In the Silurian (433–425 Ma), in oblique shears and local extension zones of the OM, plutonic syenite magmas of the Anmandykan and granitoids of the Abkit complexes (eNd from -23 to -10) are intruded. The largest manifestations of plutonic and volcanic magmatism were recorded in the OM in the Late Devonian (from 375±3 to 356±4 Ma), when calc-alkaline suprasubduction volcano-plutonic complexes (Bulun hypabyssal and Kedon volcanic) were formed. The Nd isotopic composition of Devonian magmas (eNd from -20 to -6), with an extremely low content of radiogenic lead isotopes (²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb = 17.2–15.7) indicates their melting from a mature crustal protolith in the OM basement. Early and Middle Jurassic rifting processes locally manifested on the OM, which are reflected by the Tummin trachybasalt and Omolon essexite-teschenite complexes. The Early Cretaceous (144–133 Ma, eNd from +7 to 0)) Namyndykan and Egdegkych granodiorite-monzonite plutonic complexes form suprasubduction zones of an island-arc nature on the northeastern margin of the OM. In the Santonian-Campanian time (~ 85–77 million years ago), the Early Cretaceous extension zone on the OM was healed by the Konginsky and Victorian calc-alkaline complexes of the OCVB. The final stage of magmatism in the OM is represented by intraplate alkali-basaltic volcanism in the interval from 9 to 7±1 million years ago. Synchronization in time of the manifestation of the most voluminous Late Devonian suprasubduction magmatism of the OM and basaltic LIP-magmatism of the Vilyui rift in Siberian craton was established. Based on this and comparison with detrital zircon populations from Paleozoic sandstones of northern Siberia, we reconstruct that the OM was broken off from the northeastern part of the Siberian craton during the Silurian to Devonian and moved southeast (in modern coordinates). A vast area of crustal extension and thinning reconstructed in the Alazeya zone in the Jurassic-Cretaceous time.

This paper discusses the basic principles of recording processes occurring in the Earth crust during the occurrence and development of catastrophic phenomena using an earthquake as an example, allowing one to determine the coordinates of its source and epicenter. The paper presents the basic approaches to creating the laser interferometric seismoacoustic observatory (LISO) designed to monitor continental-scale seismic events. The paper presents the instrumentations (laser and optical strainmeters, accelerometers, hydrophones) developed and used at the Institute of Automation and Control Processes, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the V.I.Il’ychev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, intended for use in the observatory being created.

Three mid-oceanic ridges meet in the area of the Bouvet triple junction the Mid-Atlantic, Southwest Indian and American-Antarctic one. At the same time, the triple junction area is characterized by manifestations of magmatism of the Bouvet hotspot. Using available laboratory modeling data, a scheme is presented for the conduit of a thermochemical mantle plume melting from the core-mantle boundary and breaking through to the surface. Using morphobatimetric data for the area of the Bouvet volcanic island, a mass flow rate of magmatic melt for the plume of the Bouvet hotspot was found. Taking into account the melt flow rate, the thermal power of the Bouvet plume source is N_B = (1.7–2.0) · 10¹⁰ W, and the plume conduit diameter is 9 to16 km. Based on the consideration of the geodynamic regime, the possible evolution of the Bouvet plume is presented. The influence of the geodynamic system of asthenospheric convective flows on the structure of the ocean floor in the Bouvet area is shown. The Bouvet Island was formed under the influence of mantle plume. The Bouvet plume is located in the area of the ascending flow of the asthenospheric rolls and contributes to the roll flow intensification. Transform faults in the Bouvet area were formed under the influence of descending flows of asthenospheric rolls. The width of the trough and the depth of the Bouvet transform fault are determined based on the analysis of the flow structure and heat transfer in the asthenosphere in the Bouvet area. The contribution of the Bouvet plume to the asthenospheric convection roll intensification is also taken into account in our calculations. The conducted geochemical and thermobarogeochemical studies indicate the decisive role of fluid components in magmatic systems of the Bouvet hotspot, which are characterized by enrichment with volatiles (H₂, H₂O, CO₂), alkali (primarily potassium) and lithophilic rare and rare earth elements (La, Ce, Th, Nb, Rb). Taking into account the seismotomographic results, the features of the mantle structure in the triple junction are considered. A high-velocity anomaly is detected along the axial zone of the Bouvet transform fault. The roots of this upper-mantle anomaly can be traced to a depth of 250 km. A low-velocity anomaly has been detected under Bouvet Island. This anomaly can be traced to depths of about 500 km.

The paper deals with the age, composition and features of the genesis of granitoids of the Soktuy massif – the petrotype of the Kukulbey complex of Mesozoic rare-metal granites of Transbaikalia. The Soktuy massif is heterogeneous. Several petrographic varieties are distinguished: monzo- granite-leucogranites and microleucogranites of the main intrusive phase, alaskites, alkali-feldspar granite porphyries, granodiorites and quartz syenites of the additional intrusion phase According to the obtained U-Pb-geochronological data, the age of all varieties is indistinguishable taking into account the analytical error and corresponds to the Early Cretaceous. Granitoids differ in a variety of geochemical characteristics: monzo- granite-leucogranites of the main intrusive phase belong to the rare-metal-plumasite type, rocks of the phase of additional intrusions show signs of A-type granitoids. The geochemical and isotopic characteristics of the rocks indicate the participation in their formation of both substrates of the continental crust and deep magmas of mantle genesis. The volatile content in micas and the peculiarities of the composition of inclusions indicate that the formation of magmas occurred with the participation of two types of fluids: chloride and reduced (probably mantle) and more oxidized fluoride (presumably having a lower-crust nature). All melts were generated at depths of no more than 30 km, and the depth of formation of the massif did not exceed 8 km. Based on the obtained data set, a model for the formation of rocks of the massif is proposed.

The junction zones of mountain ranges with sedimentary basins are concentrators of seismogenic faults that develop in settings of regional compression and transpression. The development of two opposing systems of reverse faults and thrusts forms positive (forbergs, “pop-up” structures, fault and tectonic scarps, fault related fold) and negative morphostructures (“pop-down” structures) at the edges of sedimentary basins. As a result, the edges of the basins are involved in uplift. This leads to a gradual growth and expansion of the mountain ranges and a reduction in the areas of intramountain basins, i.e. the reduction mechanism of the upper part of the earth's crust is realized. However, the mechanisms of the emergence of conjugate fault systems are not fully understood. The mechanisms of such deformations in the upper part of the earth's crust were investigated under lateral compression of the rock mass using two-dimensional numerical modeling. The elastic-plastic approximation of the Drucker-Prager-Nikolaevsky model with a non-associated flow law was used. In all models, regardless of the number of layers, reverse faults and thrusts with direct and reverse dips relative to the direction of horizontal compression were formed. As a result, positive and negative structures were formed in the relief of the models, which are analogs of the corresponding natural morphostructures. The obtained results showed that the development and configuration of localized shear bands corresponding to reverse faults and thrusts are influenced by elastic-strength properties, basal friction, and boundary conditions at the lateral boundaries of the model. It has been established that in a multilayer medium a multilayer system of localized shear bands can form because of one stage of deformations that have different slopes and are limited only to a specific layer. Special attention should be paid to models in which interlayer slippage develops. It is caused by different rates of layer displacement relative to each other due to differences in the elastic-strength properties of rocks, which leads to the development of reverse thrusts in the upper part of the section that are not associated with the base of the model. Typically, such thrusts develop in the upper part of the section. Heterogeneities in the base of the models, regardless of strength properties, can affect the spatial localization of localized shear bands that arise at their boundaries. The results of numerical modeling allowed us to better understand the relationship between the mechanical properties of rocks and sediments with the features of the development of reverse-thrust structures.

The study of the spatial distribution of individual groups of marine invertebrates in the geological past and the analysis of the dynamics of their geographical differentiation over time are of great importance both for identifying patters of their evolution and for understanding the history of marine basins. In this work, taking into account modern data on paleontology and biostratigraphy of the Boreal Triassic, the taxonomic composition and distribution of Ladinian ammonoids in different regions of the Boreal Realm are specified. Zonal correlation on ammonoids of the Ladinian deposits of northeastern Asia, British Columbia, Arctic Canada, northern Greenland, Svalbard and Franz Josef Land is carried out, a chronological basis for comparative analysis of coeval ammonoid faunas is obtained. As a result of qualitative and quantitative comparative analysis of ammonoid complexes for different phases of the Ladinian Age, it is established that northeastern Asia was constantly part of the Siberian Province of the Boreal Realm. The separation of the Canadian province of the Boreal Realm occurred at the end of the constantis phase due to the penetration of trachyceratids (genus Protrachyceras) into the paleobasins of Arctic Canada, later, starting from the maclearni phase, its area increased due to the migration of Tethyan forms into the paleobasins of Svalbard. The migrations of trachyceratids, gymnitids and lobitids into boreal paleobasins from the Tethys, as well as boreal tsvetkovitids and nathorstitids into ecotone and Tethyan paleowaters of British Columbia were caused not only by circumpolar currents, but were probably associated with the lifestyle of ammonoids and their habitation in a greater or lesser range of depths of marine basins.

Experimental studies on modelling of diamond resorption processes during mantle oxidative metasomatosis in solid-phase matrix in the presence of intergranular fluid have been carried out. The reaction between diamond and periclase with formation of magnesite was realised, which can be considered as a model variant of such reactions as EMOD (enstatite-magnesite/olivine-diamond) or DCDD (dolomite-coesite/diopside-diamond). The studies were performed at a pressure of 6.3 GPa in the temperature range 1100-1400 °C under redox conditions corresponding to the WM (wustite/magnesite) buffer. It was found that the reaction between diamond and periclase to form magnesite occurs only in the presence of 0.5-0.8 wt.% water at temperatures above 1200 °C. The morphology of diamond crystals partially dissolved by intergranular H₂O-fluid at fO₂ at WM buffer level is typomorphic for diamond dissolution/resorption in water-containing carbonate and carbonate-silicate melts. The main microrelief elements of diamond dissolution shapes are inversely orientated triangular etch pits on relict octahedral faces, shield-shaped or ditrigonal dissolution layers, and drop-shaped hills. The obtained resorption rates at these P-T-fO₂ parameters indicate that the absence of diamond or poor diamondiferousness of potentially diamondiferous kimberlite pipes may be due to oxidative metasomatosis in the mantle regions of pipe formation.

mourite, uranyl molybdate, crystal structure, infrared spectroscopy, chemistryA synthetic analog of mourite (SM), (UO₂)Mo₅O₁₄(OH)₄(H₂O)₂, has been hydrothermally synthesized at 220 ºС and characterized using single-crystal X-ray diffraction, single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction studies at non-ambient temperatures, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, thermal, and chemical analyses. SM is monoclinic, P2/c, a = 9.9063(6), b = 7.1756(4), c = 12.2105(7) Å, β = 102.496(6)°, V = 847.41(9) ų; the crystal structure has been refined to R₁ = 0.043. The chemical composition of the SM is (the Mo₂O₅:MoO₃ ratio obtained from X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, H₂O by stoichiometry; wt.%): Mo₂O₅ = 4.61, MoO₃ = 61.06, UO₃ = 26.95, H₂O = 6.76, total 99.38. The empirical formula calculated on the basis of 22 oxygen atoms per formula unit with Mo^V+Mo^VI = 5 is (U^VI_1.03O₂)[(Mo^VI_4.63Mo^V_0.37)_Σ5.00O_13.81(OH)_0.19](OH)₄(H₂O)₂. The crystal structure of SM contains UO₈, Mo1O₆, Mo2O₅(H₂O), and Mo3O₄(OH)₂ polyhedra that share vertices and edges to form layers linked by hydrogen bonds only. SM is stable up to 250±10 ºС. Upon heating, continuous dehydration occurs between 160 – 250 ºС until the formation of amorphous products; crystallization above 450 ºС produces UO₂MoO₄, MoO₃, and UMo₁₀O₃₂. Below 250 ºС, thermal expansion of the compound is strongly anisotropic, with the maximal direction perpendicular to the plane of the layers.

The Tsagan-Shibetu earthquake 29.07.2022 with ML = 6.2, M_W=5.5, time UTC 13:01:10,1 occurred in the ridge of the same name in the east of the Gornyi Altai near the Tuva Basin (50.51º N, 90.69º E). In the twentieth century, this ridge was seismically inactive and neighbored seismically active ones: the focal area of the Ureg-Nur earthquake of 1970 with M_S=7.0 and the seismically active Shapshalsky ridge, where earthquakes with a magnitude of up to five often occurred, and there were no large earthquakes yet. After the Chuya earthquake of 2003 with M_S=7.3, significant changes occurred in the seismicity structure of Altai, after a lull, new zones of increased activity emerged, one of which is the Tsagan-Shibetu ridge. In the internal structure of the ridge, a focal area with a triple areal structure and with an impulse development of the process over time was formed. The formation of high ridge activity occurred in the presence of foreshocks.

The article presents new data on the structural position, mineralogy and geochemistry of ores for the Aliinsky ore cluster and their technological features. The mineralogical and geochemical zoning of the Verkhne-Aliinsky gold ore deposit and the entire Aliinsky ore cluster as a whole is characterized The subordination of local and horizontal zoning of mineralization within the node, localization of granitoids of the late phase of the Late Jurassic Akatuevsky complex is shown. A conclusion was made about the connection of mineralization with granitoids within the framework of a single ore-magmatic system that existed in unstable P-T-X conditions of shallow depths, transitional to near-surface. This distinguishes the Verkhne-Aliinskoye deposit from the Sredne-Golgotayskoye and Sosnovskoye deposits that are similar in composition and determined, partly, the technological resistance of its ores.