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Early cretaceous radiolarian assemblages from the East Sakhalin Mountains

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Three-dimensional radiolarian skeletons isolated from rock matrix in HF solution and then studied under scanning electron microscope substantiate the Early Cretaceous age of volcanogenic-cherty deposits sampled from fragmentary rock successions of the East Sakhalin Mountains. Accordingly the Berriasian age is established for jasper packets formerly attributed to the Upper Paleozoic-Mesozoic Daldagan Group; the Valanginian radiolarians are identified in cherty rock intercalations in the Upper Paleozoic (?) Ivashkino Formation; the Berriasian-Barremian assemblage is macerated from cherty tuffites of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Ostraya Formation; and the Aptian-early Albian radiolarians are characteristic of tuffaceous cherty rocks sampled from the Cretaceous Khoe Formation of the Nabil Group. Photographic documentation of radiolarian skeletons specifies taxonomic composition and age of the Berriasian, Valanginian, Berriasian-Valanginian, Barremian, and Aptian-Albian radiolarian assemblages from the East Sakhalin Mountains, and their evolution as related to abiotic events is considered. Coexistence of Tethyan and Pacific species in the same rock samples evidence origin of radiolarian assemblages in an ecotone. Consequently, the assemblages are applicable for intra- and interregional correlations and paleogeographic reconstructions.

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Original Russian Text © D.V. Kurilov, V.S. Vishnevskaya, 2011, published in Stratigrafiya. Geologicheskaya Korrelyatsiya, 2011, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 47–64.

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Kurilov, D.V., Vishnevskaya, V.S. Early cretaceous radiolarian assemblages from the East Sakhalin Mountains. Stratigr. Geol. Correl. 19, 44–62 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593810051028

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