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This paper presents the first actual information on the geology of Jeannette Island, one of the islands of the De Long archipelago located in the East Siberian Sea. We show that Jeannette Island has a volcano-sedimentary section dominated by volcaniclastic turbidites. The sequence identified on the southwestern coast of the island has a submonoclinal plunge complicated by secondary deformation structures, which indicate a general E-W direction of tectonic transport (in present-day coordinates). The sequence is intensely cut by multiple thin (up to a few meters) gabbro-dolerite dikes that are deformed conformably with the host rocks. The general geological framework of the island bears a close resemblance to that of nearby Henrietta Island located some 70 km to the east, which consists of a volcano-sedimentary cover of Early Paleozoic age. No organic remains have been found in the studied section of Jeannette Island. The preliminary results of isotope geochronological and paleomagnetic studies confirm the Late Precambrian-Early Paleozoic age assigned to the entire rock complex of Jeannette Island. The measured paleomagnetic directions are generally consistent with the directions of Lower Paleozoic rocks of Bennett Island (De Long archipelago) and Kotelny Island (Anzhu archipelago), which confirms our earlier conclusion that the New Siberian Islands shared a common tectonic history and that this structural element of the Arctic shelf appears to have been a terrane during the Early Paleozoic. This new information can help elucidate the possible relations between the marginal-continental, shelf, island and deep-seated structures of the Eastern Arctic.
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Original Russian Text © N.N. Sobolev, D.V. Metelkin, V.A. Vernikovsky, N.Yu. Matyshkin, A.V. Prokop’ev, V.B. Ershova, A.V. Shmanyak, E.O. Petrov, 2014, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2014, Vol. 459, No. 5, pp. 595–600.
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Sobolev, N.N., Metelkin, D.V., Vernikovsky, V.A. et al. The first data on the geology of Jeannette Island (De Long Archipelago, New Siberian Islands). Dokl. Earth Sc. 459, 1504–1509 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X14120228
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