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The paper analyzes Mendeleev Rise sandstones as compared with Triassic sediments of continental Chukotka and Wrangel Island. The study of sedimentological characteristics showed that in the samples, there is gradual maturation of clastic material from the south (continental Chukotka) to the north (Mendeleev Rise). Moreover, in the samples from the Mendeleev Rise, there is no geochemical evidence of redeposition of clastic material, but severe weathering of the rocks from the provenance area has been recorded. High content of clastic quartz with microfractures (18% of all counted grains) in the sample from the Mendeleev Rise indicates that there is continental land in the vicinity from which quartz grains were eroded. Southwards, the amount of the quartz with microfractures decreases: in the Triassic sandstone of Wrangel Island, it occupies 8% and in the samples from Chukotka 3%. Analysis of lithological data indicates the presence of a large continental block in the northern part of the eastern Arctic, near which Upper Triassic shallow-marine deposits of the Mendeleev Rise were formed.
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The study was carried out with the financial support of RFBR grant 18-05-70061. Dating of detrital zircons in sample USO-4 was performed in the VSEGEI laboratory, dating of zircons in samples 09/321, 09/358 was performed due to grant 17-05-00795.
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Tuchkova, M.I., Shokalsky, S.P., Sokolov, S.D., Petrov, O.V. (2021). Correlation of Chukotka, Wrangel Island and the Mendeleev Rise. 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_7
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