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Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic volcanosedimentary complexes from the submarine Vityaz Ridge, the Island Arc slope of the Kuril-Kamchatka trench, and its evolution

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This paper describes the volcanosedimentary complexes of different ages (Late Cretaceous-Early Paleocene, Paleocene-Eocene (?), Oligocene-Early Miocene, and Pliocene-Pleistocene) that compose the basement and sedimentary cover of the submarine Vityaz Ridge. It was found that the Upper Cretaceous sedimentary rocks from the basement of the Vityaz Ridge (felsic) and the Lesser Kuril Ridge (mafic) have different compositions. Matrix mineral assemblages corresponding to the smectite and corrensite stages of epigenesis of Cenozoic rocks were distinguished, and a scheme of the Late Cretaceous-Pleistocene geological evolution of the region was proposed.

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Original Russian Text © E.P. Terekhov, A.V. Mozherovsky, I.B. Tsoy, E.P. Lelikov, N.G. Vashchenkova, M.T. Gorovaya, 2012, published in Tikhookeanskaya Geologiya, 2012, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 24–31.

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Terekhov, E.P., Mozherovsky, A.V., Tsoy, I.B. et al. Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic volcanosedimentary complexes from the submarine Vityaz Ridge, the Island Arc slope of the Kuril-Kamchatka trench, and its evolution. Russ. J. of Pac. Geol. 6, 209–216 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1819714012030062

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