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At the western margin of the northern Sikhote-Alin, the Cretaceous (Aptian—Campanian) basins of the Komsomolsky tin-ore region occur within large linear gentle NE-trending depressions of the Late Triassic—Valanginian consolidated terrigenous basement. The depressions are conjugate with the basement-arched uplifts, forming a single system. The Cretaceous basins are represented by an uninterrupted stratigraphic succession of the Aptian—Campanian volcanogenic sedimentary rocks, whose composition regularly and gradually changes upwards from purely clastics (mainly the continental molasse) to pyroclastics and lava of acidic to intermediate volcanics.
The basins experienced folding over the entire Aptian—Campanian stratigraphic interval (about 4600 m thick) to form a zonal structure. There are NE-, ENE-, and WNW-trending syndepositional buckling folds with 600–650-m wave length, which form 1.6–2.8-km-wide zones. There rarely occur NW-trending cross-buckling folds. All the specified folds are supratenuous, and have conformal secondary uplifts (for anticlines) and depressions (for synclines) completing the major Cretaceous depressions. The buckle forms are believed to develop due to repeated reverse faulting of the basement, whereas crossbuckle forms are due to normal faulting. Both of these processes are similar to those of cleavage formation. The syndepositional folding succeeded in that way the Hauterivian—Barremian basement folding of total compression.
Immediately following the syndepositional fold deformations, the postdepositional basin folding in combination with thin-skinned thrusting, upthrusting, and normal faulting was in the front of the upward migration of the regional NNE-trending sinistral fault system. This occurred along with accumulation of the volcanogenic sedimentary formations and, in the closest paragenesis, with the regional intrusion and ore-formation. The processes developed during the Aptian—Campanian tectonomagmatic event, related to the Cretaceous left-lateral activation of the NE—NNE-trending fault system of the Eastern Asia under NW lateral compression.
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Mitrokhin, A.N. Cretaceous volcanogenic sedimentary basins and folding in the Komsomolsky tin-ore region, Khabarovsk Territory, Russia. Geosci J 2, 124–133 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02910256
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