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The chapter presents results of studying the seabed rocks from scarps of steep mountainsides of the Mendeleev Rise collected during the Arctic-2012 expedition. The seabed collection consists of five thousand samples dominated by sedimentary rocks of shallow shelf facies. Carbonates are dominated by massive dolomites and limestones, which contain Devonian to Permian fauna. Terrigenous rocks are mainly represented by quartz sandstone and siltstone. Judging by the composition and age, the sedimentary rocks of the Mendeleev Rise belonged to the platform cover of the Early Precambrian cratonic block, which forms the crystalline basement of the uplifts in the Central Arctic. Basalt and gabbro-dolerite occupy no more than 10–20% of the raised seabed rocks. The basalt of the Mendeleev Rise belongs to the intraplate moderately alkaline Permian-Triassic basalt of the trap formation of Siberia and the Jurassic-Cretaceous basalt of the High Arctic Province (HALIP).
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Petrov, O.V., Shokalsky, S.P., Tolmacheva, T.Y., Kossovaya, O.L., Sergeev, S.A. (2021). Study of the Arctic Seabed Rocks. In: Petrov, O.V., Smelror, M. (eds) Tectonics of the Arctic. Springer Geology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46862-0_5
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