REGIONAL REMOTE SENSING ANALYSIS OF FAULT TECTONICS IN THENORTHWESTERN PART OF THE VERKHOYAN-KOLYMA OROGENIC REGIONAND ASSESSMENT OF ITS ROLE IN ORE FORMATION

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The article presents the results of a comprehensive analysis of fault tectonics in the north-western part of the Verkhoyan-Kolyma orogenic region. The studies were performed on a regional scale. Based on a digital relief model, lineaments were identified manually and automatically. The results obtained in combination with literature data allowed us to perform tectonophysical recon-structions using the model of P. L. Hancock (1985). Based on the reconstructions, we determined the expected areas of tectonic structures that had the highest hydraulic activity during collision processes, which are presumably associated with gold deposits and ore occurrences in Eastern Yakutia. Areas promising for the discovery of new ore objects were identified.

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V. Minaev

The Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: minaev2403@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9414-4678
candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences

S. Ustinov

The Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: stevesa@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6679-9607
candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences

V. Petrov

Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: rjes@wdcb.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7551-2516
SPIN-code: 6888-4431
Scopus Author ID: 26431573800
corresponding member Russian Academy of Sciences, doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences

A. Svecherevsky

The Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: alexey@svecherevskiy.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0007-0120-8304

I. Nafigin

The Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: estera-st@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8984-7405

A. Manevich

Geophysical Center RAS; NUST MISiS

Email: ai.manevich@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7486-6104
labratory of geodynamics, College of Mining

D. Akmatov

Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences

ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6435-464X
SPIN-code: 1687-2529
Scopus Author ID: 57207911204
ResearcherId: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dastan-Akmatov
candidate of technical sciences 2024-2025

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