Basement massifs in the Appalachians: their role in deformation during the Appalachian Orogenies

Basement is constituted of rocks which belong to a previous orogenic cycle which have been reactivated and incorporated into a younger cycle. Basement massifs may be classified according to their relative position in an orogen as external or internal massifs. They may also be categorized according to their role in deformation, as thrust-related, fold-related and composite massifs. All Appalachian external massifs were transported following their removal from the overridden edge of the ancient North American continental margin. Most of the internal massifs are also probably transported, but several (Pine Mountain and Sauratown Mountains) may be present as windows exposing parautochthonous basement beneath the main thrust sheet. The latter reside immediately west of the low (west) to high (east) gravity gradient which probably outlines the old edge of Grenvillian crust. Reactivated crustal material generated during early Palaeozoic orogeny plays the same mechanical role in reactivation as basement from the previous Grenville cycle. The domes of the Bronson Hill anticlinorium cored with Ordovician or older gneisses illustrate this behaviour. Basement (Grenville) massifs are distributed throughout the Appalachians as a belt of external massifs (Blue Ridge, Reading Prong, Hudson and Berkshire Highlands, Green Mountains, and Long Range Mountains) along the western edge of the crystalline metamorphic core. Additionally, internal massifs are also present (Pine Mountain belt, Tallulah Falls and Toxaway domes, Sauratown Mountains anticlinorium, State Farm gneiss dome, Baltimore Gneiss domes, Mine Ridge anticline, and Chain Lakes massif). Basement internal massifs probably served to localize thrusts by causing them to ramp over and around the massifs. Their antiformal shape may in part be as much related to thrust mechanics as to folding.     

中国大中型金属矿床与地块拼合带的关系

本文在分析中国区域地质特征的基础上,以ETM卫星影像为信息源,依据地质学家李四光确定地块的原则和地壳运动规律,根据ETM影像的色调、影纹和地貌等特征,建立了地块划分准则,以此为依据将中国大陆划分成28个大地块,编制了中国大陆地块盆地分布图。本文在分析地壳运动规律和各地块的运动特征的基础上,提出了各地块之间进行着规律性的相互推挤运动,且北部地块向南推移和就位,西部地块向东推移和就位的新观点。本文通过分析已知大中型金属矿床的统计分布规律:大部分矿床分布在地块东、南侧,地块运动方向的前锋,尤其是弧形拼合带前缘;提出了在块体碰撞带或块内大构造带南找大矿的新思路。     

重力、航磁资料在花岗岩型铀矿成矿研究中的应用

本文利用重磁场资料对我国南方一些花岗岩体的侵位状态和岩浆动力场进行了分析，并按动力场的强弱对岩体进行了分类。根据重力资料对苗儿山-越城岭、诸广山和贵东花岗岩体的反演计算，讨论了这些岩体的深部分布形态，提出了岩浆流动的3种方式，指出了富大铀矿床、大型铀矿聚集区的赋存部位及其与航磁异常的密切联系。     

The Late Jurassic age and geochemistry of ultramafic-mafic massifs of the Selenga-Stanovoy superterrane (southern framing of the North Asian craton)

We present new data on the age and geochemistry of the Veselyi and Petropavlovsk ultramafic-mafic massifs of the Selenga-Stanovoy (West Stanovoy) superterrane on the southeastern framing of the North Asian craton. The massifs are composed of rocks of peridotitewebsterite-gabbro and peridotite-gabbro-monzodiorite associations, respectively. The latter combine normal, subalkalic, and alkaline rocks and thus are of diverse composition: from ultrabasites and pyroxenites through gabbroids to monzodiorites. The U-Pb zircon age of these massifs is 154 ± 1 and 159 ± 1 Ma, respectively, which permits them to be referred to as the youngest rocks of ultramafic-mafic complexes on the southern framing of the North Asian craton. The rocks of the studied massifs are enriched in LILE (K, Rb, Sr, Ba, LREE) and are depleted in HFSE (Zr, Nb, Hf, Ta). These rocks formed, most likely, in the rear of subduction zone or in the setting of the subducting-slab detachment.     

岩石圈板块的分形及其降维演化

根据分形理论和各板块的面积以及现代大陆各地块面积资料 ,分别进行了全球岩石圈板块和全球大陆地块自相似性特征尺度与频度关系的研究讨论。结果表明 ,现代全球岩石圈板块在特征线度r =30 0～ 180 0km的无标度空间范围内具有分形分布特征 ,其分维数D =0 72 ;现代全球大陆地块在特征线度r =30 0～ 150 0km的无标度空间范围内具有分形分布特征 ,其分维数D =1 16 ,比现代全球板块 0 72的分形值高出 6 1%。进一步讨论认为 :传统的“板块构造动力”应区分为岩石圈破裂形成板块动力的“板块构造动力Ⅰ”和板块水平运动驱动力的“板块构造动力Ⅱ”两个方面 ;全球板块总数为 18个左右、最小板块面积在 3× 10 5 km2 左右的板块分布 ,可能与板块的形成、演化有密切关系 ;原始岩石圈板块的分形分布 ,在地球构造演化过程中有一个降维演化趋势 ,其降维演化的速率约为 4 34× 10 -10 a-1;根据分维数反映分形客体复杂与不规则程度的物理意义 ,岩石圈破碎地块的降维演化意味着岩石圈地块的破碎状况及其分布 ,具有在总体上随时间演化而逐渐向简单、规则方向演化的趋势 ;原始岩石圈的破裂以及岩石圈破碎地块从古老大陆地块向现代板块的降维演化可能源于地球的膨胀 ,膨胀使各岩石圈块体面积以及地球总面积共同增长并从     

On the results of engineering geological research of loess-soil massifs of Northern Eurasia

This paper reports on the total results obtained in solving morphological, retrospective, and engineering geological forecast tasks for loess-soil massifs. It is shown that the maximum relative subsidence ranges from 0.17 to 0.21, the thickness of subsiding loess massifs is 55 m under a natural load, the maximum number of cyclites composed of subsiding loess soils reaches ten, and more often the number of buried subsiding soils does not exceed four to five in a section of a loess massif. The main result in solving these retrospective engineering-geological tasks was the development of eight hypotheses and mechanisms of loess-soil subsidence, on the basis of which a general theory and four particular theories on the formation of loess subsidence were formulated. The result of solving the forecast tasks was the elaboration of methods for the calculation of the expected settlement of loess massifs under different conditions of wetting and the development of hydrogeochemical, geochemical, geotechnical, and integrated techniques for the improvement of the properties of loess-soil massifs.     

兴蒙造山带的基底属性与构造演化过程

为了解兴蒙造山带基底属性和多个构造体系演化与叠加历史,系统总结了近年来在基础地质研究中取得的新成果,并利用这些成果讨论了兴蒙造山带的基底属性与演化历史.兴蒙造山带是指我国东北地区古生代构造作用影响的地区,这些地区也遭受了中生代构造作用的叠加与改造.兴蒙造山带主要由微陆块和其间的造山带组成.虽然传统上认为属于前寒武纪结晶基底的地质体主要已解体为古生代和早中生代,但随着新太古代和古元古代地质体的相继发现,以及新生代玄武岩中幔源古元古代橄榄岩包体的发现,可以判定兴蒙造山带内微陆块应具有古老的前寒武纪基底,并且壳幔是耦合的.微陆块内部地壳增生以垂向增生为主,且主要发生在新元古代和中元古代,以及次要的新太古代和古生代.相反,陆块间造山带或岛弧地体的陆壳则以侧向增生为主,且主要发生在新元古代和古生代.额尔古纳地块与兴安地块的拼合发生在早古生代早期;兴安地块与松嫩地块的拼合发生在早石炭世晚期;松嫩地块与佳木斯地块的拼合发生在早古生代晚期,中生代早期又经历了裂解与再闭合的构造演化过程;华北克拉通北缘增生杂岩带与北方微陆块群的最终拼合发生在晚二叠世-中三叠世,古亚洲洋的最终闭合发生在中三叠世,且为剪刀式闭合.晚古生代晚期蒙古-鄂霍茨克大洋板块南向俯冲作用的发生以及早中生代(三叠纪-早侏罗世)的持续南向俯冲,控制了大兴安岭-冀北-辽西地区的岩浆活动,蒙古-鄂霍茨克大洋的闭合发生在中侏罗世,晚侏罗世-早白垩世主要表现为闭合后的伸展环境.古太平洋板块中生代的俯冲起始时间为早侏罗世,晚侏罗世-早白垩世早期东北亚陆缘主要表现为走滑的构造属性和陆缘地体从低纬度到高纬度的构造就位过程,早白垩世晚期-古近纪岩浆作用的向东收缩揭示了古太平洋板块的持续俯冲和俯冲板片的后撤过程,古近纪晚期日本海的打开标志着东北亚陆缘从活动陆缘已经转变为沟-弧-盆体系,并且标志着东亚大地幔楔的形成.     

The age of late orogenic granitoids of the urals based on U-Pb isotope dating of zircons (Exemplified by the Shartash and Shabry massifs)

U-Pb dating of zircons (SHRIMP-II) has been performed for the first time for granites, granodiorites, and synplutonic granodiorite and melanodiorite bodies of the Shartash and Shabry massifs in the Middle Urals. The time of the formation of the massifs is 300–306 Ma, which is 25 Ma younger than the previous estimates. The age data obtained are in line with the time of the formation of the adamellite-granite series of the Verkhisetsk Batholite (the master sample of tonalite-granodiorite-granite magmatism in the Middle Urals), the series of which is petrochemically close to the rocks of the massifs.     

Geochemical specifics of massifs of the drusite complex in the central Belomorian Mobile Belt: II. Sm-Nd isotopic system of the rocks and the U-Pb isotopic system of zircons

First isotopic-geochemical data were obtained on basite-ultrabasite rocks from the southern Kovdor area that were previously provisionally ascribed to the drusite (coronite) complex based on the occurrence of drusite (coronite) textures. The mineral and whole-rock Sm-Nd isochron age determined for five rock samples from the Sorkajoki and Poioiva massifs and the massif of Elevation 403 m turned out to be close (within the error): 2485 ± 51, 2509 ± 93, and 2517 ± 75 Ma, respectively. The crystallization age was evaluated for the two massifs (Poiojovski and Mount Krutaya Vostochnaya) by the U-Pb system of zircons. Our samples contained both magmatic and xenogenic crustal zircons, whose age was estimated at 2700 Ma. The crystallization age of the massifs themselves (data on the magmatic zircons) is 2410 ± 10 Ma. The undepleted character of the mantle source (ɛNd = +0.9) and the much younger age of the massifs than that of other known manifestations of ultrabasic magmatism in the territory of Karelia and the Kola Peninsula (including the layered pluton classic drusite massifs) suggest that the central part of the Belomorian Mobile Belt hosts one more independent intrusive rock complex, which has never been recognized previously and which is different from typical drusites.     

Peculiarities of chemical composition of triassic alkaline rocks of the Magnitogorsk Zone of the Southern Urals

The peculiarities of the chemical composition and the isotopic characteristics of Triassic alkaline aegirine-riebeckite rocks composing several small massifs in the Eastern Magnitogorsk Zone of the Southern Urals were found. These massifs are located along two meridional shift zones. Alkaline rocks from all massifs are similar in their concentration of major and minor elements and are divided into three intrusion phases: (1) monzodiorite; (2) alkaline syenite; (3) alkaline granosyenite and alkaline granite. It was established that rocks of the eastern zone are distinguished by higher potassium and iron concentrations.     

Evolution of central massifs

In spite of the abundance of definitions of central massifs, there is no integration of data Khain and Sheynmann (1960) define the central massifs as a residual province of older cycles within a progressive folding system. They note such provinces tend to be remodeled by the younger movements, yet retain their basic “setup” while exerting influence on the surrounding rocks. Central massifs may be classified into: 1) blocks of ancient Precambrian platforms, 2) blocks of Paleozoic or Mesozoic folded structures within younger geosynclinal system and 3) provinces of early consolidation which serve as “growth centers” within a geosynclinal system. Despite the differences in origin and age of central massifs, they have many common features. All are within geosynclinal belts and serve to divide them into segments; they are polygonal to diamond-shaped and are bounded by deep rifts with “flows” of ultrabasic to basic magma. As a rule, there are three periods of development of a massif with a single tectonic cycle: 1) continental regimen with denudation 2) minor marine trangression, block deformations, volcanism and granite intrusion and 3) transition to intermontane low with associated volcanic activity. Central massifs show,a mosaic of variously trending faults caused largely by vertical movements. Some students attribute the much thinner crust within the central massifs, based on geophysical studies, to a redistribution of deep-seated substance from the massif toward the geosyncline. — W. D. Lowry.     

Variations in the Nd isotopic ratios and canonical ratios of concentrations of incompatible elements as an indication of mixing sources of alkali granitoids and basites in the Khaldzan-Buregtei massif and the Khaldzan-Buregtei rare-metal deposit in western Mongolia

The paper reports data on the Nd isotopic composition and the evaluated composition of the sources of magmatism that produced massifs of alkali and basic rocks of the Khaldzan-Buregtei group. The massifs were emplaced in the terminal Devonian at 392–395 Ma in the Ozernaya zone of western Mongolia. The host rocks of the massifs are ophiolites of the early Caledonian Ozernaya zone, which were dated at 545–522 Ma. The massifs were emplaced in the following succession (listed in order from older to younger): (1) nordmarkites and dolerites syngenetic with them; (2) alkali granites and syngenetic dolerites; (3) dike ekerites; (4) dike pantellerites; (5) rare-metal granitoids; (6) alkali and intermediate basites and quartz syenites; and (7) miarolitic rare-metal alkali granites. Our data on the Nd isotopic composition [?_Nd(T)] and conventionally used (canonical) ratios of incompatible elements (Nb/U, Zr/Nb, and La/Yb) in rocks from the alkaline massifs and their host ophiolites indicate that all of these rocks were derived mostly from mantle and mantle-crustal enriched sources like OIB, E-MORB, and IAB with a subordinate contribution of N-MORB (DM) and upper continental crustal material. The variations in the ?_Nd(T) values in rocks of these massifs suggest multiple mixing of the sources or magmas derived from them when the massifs composing the Khaldzan-Buregtei group were produced. The OIB and E-MORB sources were mixed when the rocks with mantle signatures were formed. The occurrence of nordmarkites, alkali granites, and other rocks whose isotopic and geochemical signatures are intermediate between the values for mantle and crustal sources testifies to the mixing of mantle and crustal magmas. The crustal source itself, which consisted of rocks of the ophiolite complex, was obviously isotopically and geochemically heterogeneous, as also were the magmas derived from it. The model proposed for the genesis of alkali rocks of the Khaldzan-Buregtei massifs implies that the magmas were derived at two major depth levels: (1) mantle, at which the plume source mixed with an E-MORB source, and (2) crustal, at which the ophiolites were melted, and this gave rise to the parental magmas of the nordmarkites and alkali granites. The basites were derived immediately from the mantle. The mantle syenites, pantellerites, and rare-metal granitoids were produced either by the deep crystallization differentiation of basite magma or by the partial melting of the parental basites and the subsequent crystallization differentiation of the generated magmas. Differentiation likely took place in an intermediate chamber at depth levels close to the crustal (ophiolite) level of magma generation. Only such conditions could ensure the intense mixing of mantle and crustal magmas. The principal factor initiating magma generation in the region was the mantle plume that controlled within-plate magmatism in the Altai-Sayan area and the basite magmas related to this plume, which gave rise to small dikes and magmatic bodies in the group of intrusive massifs.     

2.5 Ga gabbro-anorthosites in the Belomorian Province,Fennoscandian Shield: Petrology and tectonic setting

The Vorochistoozersky, Nizhnepopovsky, and Severo-Pezhostrovsky gabbro-anorthosite massifs have been studied in the central part of the Belomorian Province, Fennoscandian Shield. The similarity of geological setting and rock composition of these massifs suggests their affiliation to a single complex. The age of the gabbro-anorthosites was determined by U-Pb (SHRIMP II) zircon dating of gabbro-pegmatites from the Vorochistoozersky massif at 2505 ± 8 Ma. The studied massifs were overprinted by the high-pressure amphibolite facies metamorphism. Relicts of magmatic layering and primary magmatic assemblages preserved in the largest bodies. The massifs consist mainly of leucocratic gabbros but also contain rocks of the layered series varying in composition from olivinite to anorthosite. The presence of troctolites in the layered series indicates the stability of the olivine–plagioclase liquidus assemblage and, respectively, shallow depths of melt crystallization. Despite the composition differences between gabbro-anorthosites of the Belomorian and peridotite–gabbronorite intrusions Kola provinces, these simultaneously formed massifs presumably mark a single great igneous event. It also includes the gabbronorite dikes in the Vodlozero terrane of the Karelian province, the Mistassini swarm in the Superior province, and the Kaminak swarm in the Hearne Craton, Canadian Shield. The large igneous province of age ~2500 Ma reflects the oldest stage of within-plate magmatism after a consolidation of the Neoarchean crust of the Kenorland Supercontinent (Superia supercraton).     

活动断裂两盘地块的迁移特征及其形成机制

通过对典型活动断裂两盘重力场特征的对比与分析,发现具有大面积布各重力负异常（或相对我异常）的地块总是向赤道方向运动,而布格重力正异常（或相对正异常）的地块向极点方向运动,布格重力异常图反映了密度情况,正异常带为大密度地块,负异常带为小密度地块,从理论分析得知,地块的密度变化导致了受力条件的改变,致使地块失稳产生运动,岩浆活动是造成地块密度变化的重要因素。     

Mesoarchean gabbroanorthosite magmatism of the Kola region: Petrochemical, geochronological, and isotope-geochemical data

The paper presents results of petrochemical, geochemical, and isotope-geochemical study of the Patchemvarek and Severnyi gabbroanorthosite massifs of the Kola Peninsula. It was shown that the rocks of these massifs differ from the gabbroanorthosite massifs of the Neoarchean Keivy-Kolmozero Complex in the more calcic composition (70–85% An) of normative plagioclase, and low contents of TiO₂, FeO, and Fe₂O₃. In terms of chemical composition, the gabbroanorthosites of the studied massifs are close to the rocks of the Fisken?sset Complex (Southwestern Greenland) and to the anorthosites of the Vermillion Lake Complex (Canada). U-Pb zircon dating established Mesoarchean ages of 2925 ± 7 and 2935 ± 8 Ma for the gabbroan-orthosites of the Patchemvarek and Severnyi massifs, respectively. It was shown that the gabbroanorthosites of the studied massifs have fairly low REE contents (Ce _n = 2.2−4.2, Yb _n = 1.6−2.6) and distinct positive Eu anomaly. Comagmatic ultrabasic differentiates have practically unfractionated REE pattern, low total REE contents (Ce _n = 1.2, Yb _n = 1.1, La/Yb _n = 1.3), and no Eu anomaly. The studied samples of the Archean gabbroanorthosites are characterized by positive ε_Nd = +2.68 for the gabbroanorthosites of the Severnyi Massif and from + 2.77 to + 1.66 for the Patchemvarek Massif. Initial strontium isotope ratios are ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr _i = 0.70204 ± 8 and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr _i = 0.70258 ± 8 for the rocks of the Severnyi and Patchemvarek massifs, respectively. Our study showed that the obtained U-Pb zircon ages for the gabbroanorthosites of the Patchemvarek and Severnyi massifs represent the oldest date for the Kola peninsula, thus marking the oldest, Mesoarchean stage in the evolution of region. The differences in the initial ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd ratios between the Neoarchean gabbroanorthosites of the Keivy-Kolmozero Complex and the Mesoarchean gabbroanorthosites of the studied massifs suggest the existence of two mantle sources. One of them produced intrusions with an age of 2.67–2.66 Ga, while other was responsible for the formation of massifs with an age of 2.93–2.92 Ga. The composition and temperature of “parental” melt of the gabbroanorthosites were simulated using COMAGMAT-3.5 program. According to the calculations, the parental melt represented aluminous basalt, whose differentiation at T = 1280°C and P = 7 kbar at the crust-mantle boundary was accompanied by plagioclase floatation and formation of “crystal mesh” that produced anorthosite complexes. The gabbroanorthosies of the Patchemvarek and Severnyi massifs were presumably derived from MORB-type basalts of oceanic settings, while the Tsaga, Achinskii, and other anorthosite massifs of the Neoarchean age were generated from subalkaline magma formed in within-plate anorogenic setting. Sm-Nd isotope data suggest the existence of several mantle sources in the Kola region, which produced melts for different-age gabbroanorthosite massifs since Mesoarchean to the middle Paleoproterozoic. The Archean-Early Proterozoic anorthosite magmatism of the Kola region records a complete cycle (∼ 800 Ma) of the formation and consolidation of continental block.     

PROSPECTS OF OIL DEPOSITS IN THE BASHKIR-ORENBURG AND AKTYUBINSK REGIONS OF THE URALS-POSSIBLE EXTENSION OF THE SAKMARA-ARTA REEFS INTO THE AREA

Geophysical and geological evidence indicates that the known Sakrnara-Arta reefs of the Bashkir Ural region (Ishimbay area) extend southward into the Orenburg and Aktyubinsk districts. The zone of productive reefs of Sakmara-Arta age may be delineated in this region of the Ural forettough by means of gravitational survey; a narrow linear band of high gravity gradients can be traced along the western margin of the trough. The margins of the anomaly (step) correspond to a first approximation with the margins of the structural and facial zones. It is concluded that: 1) reef massifs of the Ishimbays type belong to a single main belt of Sakrnara-Arta reefs; 2) reef massifs and links between separate reefs are continuous though intervals vary; 3) reef massifs are all about the same age; 4) reef massifs of southern areas dip southward with an increase in quality of the hydrocarbons; 5) these southern reefs are distinguished by their large size and great thickness (1,000 m or more) of limestone and dolomite; 6) these reefs lie under thick impermeable salt-bearing and terrigenous deposits; and 7) the widening and downward trend of the west margin may indicate younger reef massifs occur to the west of the main belt in the southern Bashkir and Orenburg parts of the Urals.--W. D. Lowry.     

Genesis and crystallization of ultramafic alkaline carbonatite magmas of Siberia: ore potential,mantle sources,and relationship with plume activity

This paper discusses the genesis of large Siberian alkaline massifs hosting major ore deposits. These reference massifs are grouped based on the predominance of alkalies (K or Na) and their agpaitic index (miaskitic and agpaitic). We proposed new emplacement schemes for the Tomtor, Murun, Burpala, Synnyr, and Bilibino massifs supported by petrochemical and geochemical data, as well as new age estimates. Types of their ore potential and genesis of rare-metal mineralization are discussed. The formational types of carbonatites as the main ore-bearing rocks are given. The depth of magma generation and types of mantle sources are determined using isotopic data from previous studies. A model of plume-related generation of ultramafic alkaline magmas is proposed.     

Composition and geodynamic setting of Late Paleozoic magmatism of Chukotka

The paper reports the results of petrogeochemical and isotope (Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf) study of the Late Paleozoic granitoids of the Anyui–Chukotka fold system by the example of the Kibera and Kuekvun massifs. The age of the granitoids from these massifs and granite pebble from conglomerates at the base of the overlying Lower Carboniferous rocks is within 351–363 Ma (U-Pb, TIMS, SIMS, LA-MC-ICP-MS, zircon) (Katkov et al., 2013; Luchitskaya et al., 2015; Lane et al., 2015) and corresponds to the time of tectonic events of the Ellesmere orogeny in the Arctic region. It is shown that the granitoids of both the massifs and granite pebble are ascribed to the I-type granite, including their highly differentiated varieties. Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotope compositions of the granitoids indicate a contribution of both mantle and crustal sources in the formation of their parental melts. The granitic rocks of the Kibera and Kuekvun massifs were likely formed in an Andean-type continental margin setting, which is consistent with the inferred presence of the Late Devonian–Early Carboniferous marginal-continental magmatic arc on the southern Arctida margin (Natal’in et al., 1999). Isotope data on these rocks also support the idea that the granitoid magmatism was formed in a continental margin setting, when melts derived by a suprasubduction wedge melting interacted with continental crust.     

Relationship between platinum-bearing ultramafic-mafic intrusions and large igneous provinces (exemplified by the Siberian Craton)

This study aims at summarizing available geological and geochemical data on known Proterozoic platinum-bearing ultramafic-mafic massifs in the south of Siberia. Considering new data on geochemistry and geochronology of some intrusions, it was feasible to compare ore-bearing complexes of different time spans and areas and to follow their relationships with the recognized large igneous provinces. In the south of Siberia, the platinum-bearing massifs might be united into three age groups: Late Paleoproterozoic (e.g., Chiney complex, Malozadoisky massif), Late Mesoproterozoic (e.g., Srednecheremshansky massif), and Neoproterozoic (e.g., Kingash complex, Yoko-Dovyren massif, and massifs in the center of the East Sayan Mts.). In most massifs but Chiney the initial magmas are magnesium-rich. On paleogeodynamic reconstructions, the position of the studied massifs is the evidence that three most precisely dated events in North Canada continued into southern Siberia: In the period 1880-1865 Ma, it was the Ghost-Mara River-Morel LIP; at 1270-1260 Ma, the Mackenzie LIP; and at 725-720 Ma, Franklin LIP. In Siberia, the mostly productive massifs with respect to PGE-Ni-Cu mineralization are those linked with the Franklin LIP: Verkhny Kingash, Yoko-Dovyren, and central part of the Eastern Sayan Mountains, e.g., Tartay, Zhelos, and Tokty-Oy.