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New data on the structure of the Sea of Okhotsk bottom

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The reinterpretation of the time and deep sections along CDP Profile 1632 revealed different previously unknown structural features: (1) a buried bar and a Late Pliocene regional unconformity, the Bol’sheretsk and Lebed subaerial shield volcanoes, and the Koni-P’yagina and Magadan megadikes at its level; (2) morphological evidence for the nappe structure of the Okhotsk Arch (homoclinal thrust slices of the acoustic basement with ramp half-grabens in the frontal part and a pull-apart zone with a solitary diapir in the Kol’skii Trough, which divides the arch into two allochthonous megablocks with opposite vergence of their thrusts), which is related to a divergent sheet decollement, probably, at the M discontinuity.

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Original Russian Text © V.L. Lomtev, V.N. Patrikeev, M.G. Gurinov, 2009, published in Tikhookeanskaya Geologiya, 2009, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 3–11.

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Lomtev, V.L., Patrikeev, V.N. & Gurinov, M.G. New data on the structure of the Sea of Okhotsk bottom. Russ. J. of Pac. Geol. 3, 201–209 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1819714009030014

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