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The problems of radiolarian-based dating of Jurassic-Cretaceous siliceous rocks from accretionary complexes, the Russian East

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Radiolarians, which represent the most widespread fossil faunal group in jaspers and cherts, are the best tool for determining the geological age of Jurassic-Cretaceous volcanogenic-siliceous sequences in the Pacific margin of Russia, because they meet all the conditions required for orthostratigraphic groups, i.e., demonstrate rapid evolutionary changes of their assemblages, completeness of their record through the geological section, and a wide lateral distribution. The selection of biostratigraphic scales for determining the age of radiolarian assemblages is of principal significance. The significant difficulty in correlating Tethyan and Pacific assemblages is similar to that appearing in the case of the correlation between the Tethyan and Boreal ammonite standards. The existing discrepancies are explained by the different life spans of some guide species that determine the stratigraphic range of particular zones in their geographic type areas and may be different in other paleobiogeographic regions and provinces. The program of scientific studies should include the search for and thorough analysis of Jurassic-Cretaceous sections in Russia that contain simultaneously radiolarians, buchians, and ammonites. Such sections might provide the possibility for developing a single scale for the transitional sections and outlining ways for correlating the Tethyan and Pacific assemblages.

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Original Russian Text © V.S. Vishnevskaya, 2010, published in Tikhookeanskaya Geologiya, 2010, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 43–56.

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Vishnevskaya, V.S. The problems of radiolarian-based dating of Jurassic-Cretaceous siliceous rocks from accretionary complexes, the Russian East. Russ. J. of Pac. Geol. 4, 131–144 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S181971401002003X

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