Integrated Research of the Southeastern Baltic Sea during the Cruise 47 of the R/V Akademik Nikolaj Strakhov

Oceanology - New data on the geological structure and genesis of relict bottom relief forms, objects of underwater cultural heritage, and the structure of bottom sediments in the Baltic Sea were...     

Distribution and Relationship between Heterotrophic Organisms and Viruses on the East Siberian Sea Shelf

Oceanology - The distribution of heterotrophic bacteria, viruses, and heterotrophic nanoflagellates was studied in the shelf waters of the East Siberian Sea along the meridional transect from the...     

Features of Formation of the Sedimentation and Mass Accumulation Rate in Western Black Sea Bottom Sediments

Oceanology - The article is devoted to studing of the features of sedimentation on the bottom of the northwestern shelf and western deep-water area of the Black Sea based on an analysis of our own...     

Determining Both Tropospheric and Stratospheric СО2 Contents Using a Ground-Based IR Spectroscopic Method

Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics - Results obtained from ground-based high spectral resolution measurements of solar IR radiation absorption spectra are analyzed. These measurements have...     

Lithospheric Magnetic Anomalies of the Eastern Part of the Arctic Ocean as Images of Tectonic Structures

Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics - Geomagnetic data measured by the CHAMP satellite have been used to construct the spatial distribution of the lithospheric magnetic anomaly field in the...     

Microseismicity in Local Areas: The Southeastern Part of the Fennoscandian Shield

This paper summarizes the observations of microseismic emissions by these authors in several areas of the Russian part of the Fennoscandian Shield to assess the potential of microseismicity to determine the present-day activity of local features in the upper part of the geologic medium. We give amplitude–frequency characteristics and the space–time distribution of naturally occurring microseismic events that are hypothesized to be of endogenous origin. We discuss the relationships these characteristics have to the regional geodynamic setting, average dimensions, and petrographic composition of active rock blocks.     

Geochemical and Sm–Nd isotope–geochemical patterns of metavolcanic rocks,diabase, and metagabbroids on the northeastern flank of the South Mongolian–Khingan orogenic belt

The first results of geochemical and Sm–Nd isotope–geochemical studies of metavolcanic rocks, metagabbroids, and diabase of the Nora-Sukhotino terrane, the least studied part of the South Mongolian–Khingan orogenic belt in the system of the Central Asian orogenic belt are reported. It is established that the basic rocks composing this terrane include varieties comparable with E-MORB, tholeiitic, and calc-alkaline basalt of island arc, calc-alkaline gabbro-diabase, and gabbroids of island arcs. Most likely, these formations should be correlated with metabasalt and associated Late Ordovician gabbro-amphibolite of the Sukdulkin “block” of the South Mongolian–Khingan orogenic belt, which are similar to tholeiite of intraplate island arcs by their geochemical characteristics.