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The Riphean-Vendian-Cambrian sedimentogenesis zone at the southeastern margin of the North Asian Craton: The geostructural setting and regionalization

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The stratigraphic and lithofacies correlability, as well as the predominance of shallow-marine and lagoonal sedimentation settings, have been established for the Riphean-Vendian-Cambrian complexes at the southeastern margin of the North Asian Craton. The fraction of carbonate lithotypes usually increases both upsection (from the Early Riphean to Vendian and Cambrian) and along the lateral direction (from the southern and southwestern platformal zones to the eastern and northeastern folded zones), suggesting that the southern and southwestern areas of the basin represented the marginal and coastal zones, whereas its major part represented a deeper offshore zone. The section is divided into two structural stages: (i) the Riphean riftogenic and riftogenic-depression; (ii) the Vendian-Cambrian depression-plate and plate. We propose to define the Aldan-Maya marginal syneclise (based on the specific features of the sedimentogenesis) and the Aldan-Maya petroliferous zone in the Lena-Tunguska petroliferous province of the Siberian Craton (from the viewpoint of the petroleum geology). The proposed schematic geostructural regionalization of the syneclise includes the Uchur-Maya (Aldan-Maya) plate, the Tompo-Maya (Yudoma-Maya) aulacogen, and the South Verkhoyansk synclinorium. These structures are subdivided into tectonic zones.

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Original Russian Text © V.G. Varnavsky, V.E. Kuznetsov, 2011, published in Tikhookeanskaya Geologiya, 2011, Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 67–79.

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Varnavsky, V.G., Kuznetsov, V.E. The Riphean-Vendian-Cambrian sedimentogenesis zone at the southeastern margin of the North Asian Craton: The geostructural setting and regionalization. Russ. J. of Pac. Geol. 5, 433–445 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1819714011050101

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