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Lithogeochemistry of rocks of the Upper Neopleistocene Ust-Oda reference section in the Irkutsk Amphitheater of the Siberian Platform

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The results of study of rocks of the Ust-Oda section, one of the key outcrops of Upper Neopleistocene sediments in the Irkutsk Amphitheater of the Siberian Platform, are presented. It is shown that primary sediments were deposited in the Neopleistocene under subarid conditions and relatively high sedimentation rates. Similar contents of trace elements in all rock lithologies suggest that the provenance was unaltered during sedimentation. It is shown that variation in the sediment transport mechanism is one of the signs of changes in the paleoclimatic setting. Climatic cyclicity of the Ust-Oda section formation and succession of sedimentation setting, which were reconstructed on the basis of grain size data, correspond to variations in the petrochemical correlations and geochemical coefficients.

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    V. V. Ivanova & I. A. Filinov

  2. Institute of the Earth’s Crust, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences (IZK SO RAN), ul. Lermontova 128, Irkutsk, 664033, Russia

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  3. Faculty of Geology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    A. Yu. Kazansky

  4. Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences (IGM SO RAN), pr. akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    G. G. Matasova

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Original Russian Text © V.V. Ivanova, A.A. Shchetnikov, I.A. Filinov, S.V. Veshcheva, A.Yu. Kazansky, G.G. Matasova, 2016, published in Litologiya i Poleznye Iskopaemye, 2016, No. 3, pp. 215–232.

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Ivanova, V.V., Shchetnikov, A.A., Filinov, I.A. et al. Lithogeochemistry of rocks of the Upper Neopleistocene Ust-Oda reference section in the Irkutsk Amphitheater of the Siberian Platform. Lithol Miner Resour 51, 179–194 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0024490216030020

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