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New data on the neotectonic processes, seismicity, and earth’s interior degassing in the southern part of the Zeya-Bureya artesian basin and their influence on the hydrogeological processes are considered. The helium-measuring and atmochemical methods that were used for defining zones of elevated permeability and channels of the fluid discharge revealed the discrete permeability of fractures and confinement of active “breathing” zones to intersections of faults that border high-order artesian basins and internal hydrogeological massifs. The confinement of discharge sites of different-type mineralized waters to definite structural-tectonic junctions of seismogenic zones is considered. Their description and trace-element composition are reported. The results of long-term helium measurements for understanding the dynamics of the earth’s interior degassing and the fluid regime in the Konstantinovka deposit of mineral chloride sodic waters are presented.
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Original Russian Text © A.T. Sorokina, A.P. Sorokin, M.A. Serov, 2008, published in Tikhookeanskaya Geologiya, 2008, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 43–56.
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Sorokina, A.T., Sorokin, A.P. & Serov, M.A. Reflection of neotectonic processes in the subsurface hydrosphere of the Verkhnii Amur region. Russ. J. of Pac. Geol. 2, 499–511 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1819714008060043
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