Tectonics and evolution of the northeastern extremity of the East-Asian Rift Belt
- Authors: Zabrodin V.Y.1
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Affiliations:
- Kosygin Institute of Tectonics and Geophysics, Far East Branch
- Issue: Vol 11, No 3 (2017)
- Pages: 155-162
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1819-7140/article/view/211245
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1819714017030071
- ID: 211245
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Abstract
The northeastern extremity of the East-Asian Rift Belt is designated as the Priokhotsky Rift, comprising the broadly north–south Torom (750 × 100 km) and Nizhneamursky (450 × 100 km) open faults formed by a system of northeast striking grabens associated with the closure of the Tan-Lu shear system and north–south striking grabens formed in a setting of oblique extension. Infilling of the grabens corresponding to the rift stage proper is the Eocene−Miocene coal-bearing molasse; the fields of the Miocene basalts are also related to it. The grabens of the rift belt are overlain by the Pliocene–Neopleistocene associations of rift basins in the forming plate cover of the Alpine platform.
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V. Yu. Zabrodin
Kosygin Institute of Tectonics and Geophysics, Far East Branch
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Email: VZabrodin@rambler.ru
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