{"title":"The Ore Potential of the Late Mesozoic Ariadnensky Massif of Ultramafic, Mafic, and Granitoid Rocks (Sikhote-Alin Orogenic Belt)","authors":"A. I. Khanchuk, V. P. Molchanov","doi":"10.1134/s1819714023060052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s1819714023060052","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Abstract</h3><p>In the south of the Russian Far East, a new promising type of source of strategic and critically important metals (titanium, gold, platinum, niobium, hafnium, copper, antimony, etc.) has been discovered: these are complex ores and placers that are spatially and genetically related to the Late Mesozoic (Cenomanian?) synorogenic intrusions of ultramafic–mafic rocks of the Sikhote-Alin orogenic belt. One example is the Ariadnensky massif of ultramafic, mafic and granitoid rocks with gold-titanium mineralization in its mafic part, gold-antimony mineralization at the exocontact, and gold-copper mineralization in the circum-intrusive zone. The main mineralogical and geochemical features of these ore formations have been determined. The typomorphic properties of native gold from ultramafic rocks have been revealed. It is shown that mantle and crustal processes were involved in the formation of different types of ore. The materials we obtained provide new opportunities for the reassessment of potential of strategic metal resources in Primorye.</p>","PeriodicalId":49583,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Pacific Geology","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139646441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. E. Mikhailik, A. I. Khanchuk, E. V. Mikhailik, V. A. Rashidov, D. P. Savelyev, N. V. Zarubina
{"title":"Erratum to: Ferromanganese Crusts of the North Pacific Ocean","authors":"P. E. Mikhailik, A. I. Khanchuk, E. V. Mikhailik, V. A. Rashidov, D. P. Savelyev, N. V. Zarubina","doi":"10.1134/s1819714023060106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s1819714023060106","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An Erratum to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1819714023060106</p>","PeriodicalId":49583,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Pacific Geology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139646275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhonglei Wang, Yong Zhang, Bei-bei Mi, Zhongbo Wang, Yanguang Dou, Jingyi Cong, Jun Sun
{"title":"Provenance Evolution and Its Response to Sea Level Change in the South Yellow Sea since 1.0 Ma","authors":"Zhonglei Wang, Yong Zhang, Bei-bei Mi, Zhongbo Wang, Yanguang Dou, Jingyi Cong, Jun Sun","doi":"10.1134/s1819714024010081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s1819714024010081","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49583,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Pacific Geology","volume":"70 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138945544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transformation of Gravity Anomalies in Large Territories (the Case of the Kuril Island Arc)","authors":"","doi":"10.1134/s1819714023080055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s1819714023080055","url":null,"abstract":"<span> <h3>Abstract</h3> <p>An algorithm and a program for transformation of gravity anomalies for large territories are presented. They use a spherical shape of the Earth and the geodetic coordinates of measuring points. The calculations employ the “quasi-ellipsoidal” model of V.V. Kavraisky, which allows the transition from the geodetic to the spherical coordinate system with increased accuracy. The algorithm is based on a sourcewise approximation of the field values located at the nodes of a regular grid with the latitude-dependent depths of the equivalent sources. To determine the source masses, the system of linear algebraic equations is solved by the steepest descent gradient method with an accelerated calculation of the step. The results of transformation of the gravitational field in the Bouguer reduction for the Kuril Island arc, the adjacent water and land areas located within 40°–54° N, 142°–162° E and having a total area of about 2.4 mln km<sup>2</sup>, are presented. A slight difference between the results of recalculating the gravity anomalies into the upper half-space using the “spherical” and “quasi-ellipsoidal” models of the Earth is experimentally established.</p> </span>","PeriodicalId":49583,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Pacific Geology","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139759350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Variety of the Relief of the Northeastern Atlantic Volcanic Seamounts","authors":"","doi":"10.1134/s1819714023080171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s1819714023080171","url":null,"abstract":"<span> <h3>Abstract</h3> <p>The structures of the volcanic seamounts of the Atlantis-Great Meteor group, as well as areas of the archipelagos of the Cape Verde Islands, the Canary Islands and the Azores are analyzed. Their simplest type is a cone-like structure with one summit (Maio seamount). A more complex type consists of two closely spaced volcanic edifices (Nola seamount). The seamounts were also formed as a result of the activity of a central-type volcano and a fissure system (The-Paps seamount). A more complex morphology is presented by the mountains that were formed as a result of the activity of an underwater volcano of the central type, which was combined with the activity of three to four radial fissure volcanic systems (the Tropic seamount). The seamounts were also formed only during fissure eruptions (the Condor seamount, the Cadamosto seamount). These are ridges, tens of kilometers long without a clearly defined summit. All above types of seamounts, with their rise above sea level, subsequent abrasion and subsidence lead to the creation of flat-topped structures (guyots) (the Senghor seamount).</p> </span>","PeriodicalId":49583,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Pacific Geology","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139759340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geological Setting and Gold–Bismuth Mineralization of the Namovskoe Deposit (Southern Sikhote-Alin)","authors":"","doi":"10.1134/s1819714023060040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s1819714023060040","url":null,"abstract":"<span> <h3>Abstract</h3> <p>Based on the results of a comprehensive geological, mineralogical, and geochemical study of ores of the Namovskoe deposit, new data on the specifics of mineralization were obtained. The ores of the deposit were formed in close relation to the Early Cretaceous monzonitoid magmatism against the background of active left-hand movements along the Middle Sikhote-Alin fault. The U–Pb dating of the ore-bearing dyke provided an age of 103 Ma. In addition to native Au, the ores of the deposit contain high concentrations of Ag, Bi, and Cu. A variety of Bi minerals were registered in the ores: sulfide (bismuthinite), telluride (hedleyite), sulfotellurides (tetradymite, joseite-А, and joseite-В), Ag sulfobismuthite (matildite), Pb–Bi sulfosalts (aschamalmite, cannizzarite, cosalite, lillianite, nuffieldite, and galenobismuthite), an intermetallic compound of Au (maldonite), and native Bi. Ag minerals were identified as well: chloride (cerargyrite), sulfide (acanthite), and telluride (hessite). The typomorphic patterns of ore minerals and the geological structure of the Namovskoe deposit assign it to the type of gold deposits formed in a transform continental margin setting. A mantle source of ore mineralization is suggested.</p> </span>","PeriodicalId":49583,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Pacific Geology","volume":"283 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139646276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Submarine Volcano 8.10 (Kuril Island Arc)","authors":"","doi":"10.1134/s1819714023080031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s1819714023080031","url":null,"abstract":"<span> <h3>Abstract</h3> <p>Submarine volcano 8.10, which is part of the South Iturup group of submarine volcanoes in the Kuril Island Arc (KIA), was studied using a proven technology of quantitative interpretation of hydromagnetic survey materials in combination with echo sounding, continuous seismoacoustic profiling, and analysis of petromagnetic properties and chemical composition of dredged rocks. The technology makes it possible to interpret directly from the original data without resorting to the procedure of their preliminary restoration in the nodes of a regular grid. The studies found that dredged andesite-basalts and andesites are representatives of different lava flows that have a single magma source but differ in the conditions and dynamics of crystallization. The main carrier of the natural residual magnetization of andesite-basalts is titanomagnetite with low Ti content and that for andesites is magnetite. Feeding channels and peripheral magma chambers are identified in the volcanic edifice. Submarine volcano 8.10 and other studied KIA volcanoes formed during geomagnetic inversions. The presence of hydroacoustic anomalies at the top of the volcano indicates that manifestations of underwater gas-hydrothermal activity in the southern part of the KIA are more significant than was thought until recently.</p> </span>","PeriodicalId":49583,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Pacific Geology","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139759421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ages and Isotope Compositions of the Gold–Silver Deposits and Occurrences of the Evensk Group (Okhotsk–Chukotka Volcanogenic Belt, Northeast Russia)","authors":"","doi":"10.1134/s1819714023060076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s1819714023060076","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>The existing and recently acquired data on the isotope ages and compositions of volcanogenic Au–Ag deposits and occurrences of the Evensk group (Okhotsk–Chukotka volcanogenic belt, Northeast Russia) are summarized. The K–Ar isotope and Rb–Sr isochron ages of Au–Ag ores from the studied deposits and occurrences are 82.7 ± 3–77.5 ± 3 Ma and 84.1 ± 2–79.7 ± 5 Ma, respectively. Au–Ag mineralization was formed within ~5 Ma. Au–Ag mineralization typical of productive ore stages and practically unaffected by later thermal processes is characterized by low initial <sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr<sub>(0)</sub> = 0.7055–0.7059 ratios, which are close to the initial <sup>87</sup>Sr/<sup>86</sup>Sr<sub>(0)</sub> ratios in wall-rock metasomatites (0.7033–0.7082) and unaltered host rocks (0.7045–0.7048), thus indicating a pronounced predominance of mantle Sr in the ores. The composition points of ore Pb on the <sup>207</sup>Pb/<sup>204</sup>Pb–<sup>206</sup>Pb/<sup>204</sup>Pb evolution diagram are grouped in close proximity to the Pb isotope composition points in the depleted mantle with a trend towards the subduction-related volcanic rocks typical of the continental margin. A close genetic relationship between the ore and magmatic processes has been confirmed. It is assumed that this relationship is due to the functioning of a single mantle basaltic chamber, which served as a source of metal-bearing fluids and is probably the primary source of Au and Ag.</p>","PeriodicalId":49583,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Pacific Geology","volume":"283 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139646439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arc-Parallel Strike-Slip Faulting in an Island Arc under Arc-Normal Subduction: The Case of Kamchatka","authors":"A. I. Kozhurin, T. K. Pinegina, V. V. Ponomareva","doi":"10.1134/s1819714023050044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s1819714023050044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49583,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Pacific Geology","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Lithosphere Structure in the Northern Part of the Southern Sikhote-Alin Region According to the Magnetotelluric Sounding Data","authors":"V. B. Kaplun, A. K. Bronnikov","doi":"10.1134/s1819714023070035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1134/s1819714023070035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49583,"journal":{"name":"Russian Journal of Pacific Geology","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}