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Geotectonic setting of the Tertiary Uyandina and Indigirka-Zyryanka basins, Republic Sakha (Yakutia), Northeast Russia, using coal rank data
Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany
now retired
Abstract. Outcrops along the Inach River in the Uyandina basin and those along the Myatis' River in the Indigirka-Zyryanka basin were studied in detail and sampled for coal rank determinations. The Uyandina basin is an intramontane pull-apart basin characterized by extensional structures within the Moma rift system. The coal rank is below 0.3% vitrinite reflectance (Rr), which indicates shallow, immature conditions of basin formation and very low subsidence. The Myatis' River coal-bearing outcrops in the Indigirka-Zyryanka basin reveal compression induced by continent collision. The compressive deformation includes also lowermost Pliocene strata. Due to the position in the Verkhoyansk-Chersky fold belt adjacent to the Kolyma-Omolon microcontinent the Indigirka-Zyryanka basin has much in common with a foredeep, i.e. the asymmetry in thickness and tectonic structure. The vitrinite reflectance data (Rr) which range from 0.25% to more than 5% reinforce the accepted models that describe basin subsidence and geothermal history and the tectonic deformation.
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Citation: Paech, H.-J.: Geotectonic setting of the Tertiary Uyandina and Indigirka-Zyryanka basins, Republic Sakha (Yakutia), Northeast Russia, using coal rank data, Stephan Mueller Spec. Publ. Ser., 4, 85-96, doi:10.5194/smsps-4-85-2009, 2009. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
