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Structure of the Earth’s Crust in the Northeast Aldan Anteclise (Siberian Platform): Diamond Potential

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The gravitational and magnetic fields of the eastern Aldan anteclise, within the area bounded by longitudes 126° and 138° E and latitudes 58° and 64° N, are analyzed; seismic data along the 3-DV Tommot‒Khandyga reference profile are also considered in order to identify structural features of the Early Precambrian consolidated crust and to assess the diamond potential of the territory. It is shown that the crystalline basement is divided by the Uchur crustal‒mantle fault into the Paleoproterozoic Aldan granulite–gneiss belt and the Archean Batomga granite–greenstone zone; the southern segments of these structures were studied within the Aldan–Stanovoy shield. The formation processes of the Aldan granulite–gneiss belt in the Paleoproterozoic contributed to thickening of its crust (to 50–52 km) compared to the Archean Batomga granite–greenstone region (42–45 km). The Khompu–Maya kimberlite field with the Tuymada pipe is confined to the Bestyakh block of the Batomga granite–greenstone zone. The main regional criteria for the diamond potential of the identified subprovince in the northeast Aldan anteclise include: (i) the presence of a lithospheric root up to 220 km thick, (ii) the granite–greenstone type of the Earth’s crust, and (iii) low heat flow values.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors acknowledge S.V. Dunaev, L.I. Zhukova, A.N. Sidorenko, and K.Yu. Osipovich, geophysicists at Yakutskgeologiya production geological association (Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)), for collaboration in 1988–1993 on the results of gravity surveys of the Aldan anteclise (scale 1 : 200 000).

The authors are grateful to A.N. Koltin, managing director of JSC Yakutskgeologiya (Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)) for support of research activities.

The authors thank the anonymous reviewers for useful comments and the editor for thorough editing.

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Stogny, G.A., Stogny, V.V. Structure of the Earth’s Crust in the Northeast Aldan Anteclise (Siberian Platform): Diamond Potential. Geotecton. 56, 280–293 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852122030086

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