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The paper reports new isotope-geochemical data on Late Paleocene-Early Eocene basalts from the central part of the Kolyuchin-Mechigmen graben, eastern Chukotka Peninsula. The distribution of the major and trace elements and trace-element ratios indicates that the basalts were formed in a marginal-continental rift setting. The peculiar feature of the basalts is a combination of depleted within-plate and suprasubduction geochemical signatures, which make the volcanic rocks from Mt. Otdel’naya different from rocks of suprasubduction volcanic belts and from tholeiites and alkaline lavas of continental rifts and oceanic islands. Extremely high 87Sr/86Sr ratios in the studied basalts as compared to those of similar volcanic rocks from extension zones are probably related to the involvement of carbonate material in the magma generation zone.
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Original Russian Text © P.I. Fedorov, V.N. Smirnov, 2014, published in Petrologiya, 2014, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 60–71.
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Fedorov, P.I., Smirnov, V.N. Early Cenozoic volcanism of the Kolyuchin-Mechigmen graben, Chukotka Peninsula. Petrology 22, 54–64 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869591114010032
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