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This paper is based on the data obtained during the field study of active faults carried out in 2005–2006 in the Chita and Amur oblast and South Yakutia in connection with detailed seismic demarcation of the projected East Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline route. The comprehensive geomorphic and geophysical fieldwork was focused on paleoseismogeology and accompanied by trenching in the zones of reactivated faults. These works allowed us to specify the available information on the present-day structure, seismotectonic regime, and potential seismic hazard of the conjugation of the Baikal Rift Zone and the arched-block rise of the Stanovoi Ridge.
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Original Russian Text © A.N. Ovsyuchenko, S.V. Trofimenko, A.V. Marakhanov, P.S. Karasev, E.A. Rogozhin, 2010, published in Geotektonika, 2010, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 29–51.
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Ovsyuchenko, A.N., Trofimenko, S.V., Marakhanov, A.V. et al. Seismotectonics of the transitional region from the Baikal Rift Zone to orogenic rise of the Stanovoi range. Geotecton. 44, 25–44 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852110010036
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