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Late Mesozoic–Cenozoic Stages of Volcanism and Geodynamics of the Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk

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A model of the geological evolution of the Japan and Okhotsk seas was developed based on radioisotope age, mineralogical, and isotope-geochemical study of the Late Mesozoic–Cenozoic volcanic rocks. The geodynamic settings of volcanic stages were determined as follows: (1) the Late Cretaceous continental-margin (calc-alkaline), (2) the Eocene transform-margin (adakite) in the Sea of Okhotsk, (3) the Miocene–Pliocene marginal sea (alkaline basaltic) in the Sea of Japan, and (4) the Pliocene–Pleistocene island arc (calc-alkaline) in the southern Sea of Okhotsk. It has been established that parental magmas were derived from subcontinental lithosphere, oceanic asthenosphere, and lower-mantle plume-continental (CAB) and plume-oceanic (OIB) sources. Geodynamic settings changed from the Late Cretaceous subduction to the Maastrichtian–Pliocene transform margin. The transform margin setting involved destruction and extension, maximum oceanic-margin spreading (end of the Early Miocene–beginning of the Middle Miocene), and post-spreading lower mantle plume upwelling (the Middle Miocene – Pliocene). It was completed by the resumption of the Pliocene–Pleistocene subduction of the Pacific plate beneath the Eurasian continent.

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This paper is dedicated in memory of Prof. Evgenii Petrovich Lelikov.

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The work was made under government-financed research program of the Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (project no. АААА-А17-117030110033-0) and was financially supported by the “Far East” Project (project no. 18-1-008).

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Emelyanova, T.A., Petrishchevsky, A.M., Izosov, L.A. et al. Late Mesozoic–Cenozoic Stages of Volcanism and Geodynamics of the Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk. Petrology 28, 418–430 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869591120050021

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