Study of marine Paleogene diatom assemblages from the Kamchatka region: results of the last decade

Abstract

Review of results obtained on fossil diatom assemblages studied from marine Paleogene sections in Kamchatka region in the last decade are presented. The first data for Kamchatka on direct correlation of Eocene diatom assemblages with complexes of calcareous plankton (the Il’pinskii Peninsula stratigraphic section, northeast Kamchatka), and on correlation of Oligocene diatom assemblages with the magnetostratigraphic scale (the Kvachina Bay section, west Kamchatka) are emphasized.