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New Data on the Age and Lithological Composition of the Liman Formation, Sakhalin Island

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Data on diatom algae and silicoflagellates were obtained for the first time from the lower part of the stratotype of the Liman Formation (Liman Mount area), which allowed dating of this part of the Liman Formation as far back as the end of the Middle–beginning of the Late Miocene (Denticulopsis praedimorpha Zone, 12.9–11.5 Ma and Thalassiosira yabei Zone, 11.5–10.0 Ma by diatoms) and revealed the marine genesis of host deposits. The upper part of the stratotype of the Liman Formation (Pyata Cape area) that hosts the continental deposits with an assemblage of freshwater diatoms, with a certain degree of confidence may be referred to the Late Miocene (?)–Eopleistocene (Calabrian Stage).

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to the fieldwork researchers in the framework of the regional studies on Agreement with PAO Rosneft Oil Company Yu.V. Kostrov and A.E. Khardikov (OOO RN-SakhalinNIPImorneft), L.V. Osipova (Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences), and E.L. Grundan (Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI)) for chemical and technical processing of samples for the study of miscofossils and taking their photographs, E.S. Razumkova (PAO All-Russian Oil Research Prospecting Institute (a.k.a. АО “VNIGRI-Geological exploration”)) for performance of biostratigraphical analysis on dinocysts. The authors greatly appreciate the permanent help and support of N.A. Malyshev and V.E. Verzhbitsky (PAO Rosneft Oil Company) and O.A. Krovushkina (OOO RN-Shelf-Arctica) in the arrangement of these studies.

The authors express their gratitude to the reviewers A.Yu. Gladenkov and V. S. Pushkar for their thorough analysis of the manuscript and constructive remarks significantly improving the manuscript.

The study was partly performed in the framework of the themes of the State Assignments for POI FEB RAS (no. 121021700342-9) and GIN RAS (no. 0114-2021-0003).

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  1. OOO RN-Shelf-Arctica, pr. Mira 426/1, 693004, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia

    P. Yu. Kovtunovich & L. S. Safronova

  2. Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, per. Pyzhevsky 7, str. 1, 119017, Moscow, Russia

    T. V. Oreshkina

  3. Ilyichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Baltiiskaya 43, 690041, Vladivostok, Russia

    I. B. Tsoy

  4. PAO VNIGRI, ul. Salova 28, 192102, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

    T. V. Dmitrieva

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Kovtunovich, P.Y., Safronova, L.S., Oreshkina, T.V. et al. New Data on the Age and Lithological Composition of the Liman Formation, Sakhalin Island. Russ. J. of Pac. Geol. 15, 523–537 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1819714021060051

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