U.S.-Russia Joint Workshop on the Plate Tectonic Evolution of NE Russia
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U.S.-Russia Joint Workshop on the Plate Tectonic Evolution of NE Russia
Stanford University Dec. 9-12, 2004Sponsored by the
U.S. National Science Foundation(Tectonics and International Divisions)
with travel support for Russian scientists shared byPlacer Dome, Shell International, Anadarko, Encana, Exxon,
Pacific Rim Geology Consultants for
Fall 2004 AGU Special Session in honor of Leonid ParfenovSan Francisco, CA, Dec. 16th
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After the field 1999 Leonid and Irina’s dasha party
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WELCOME TO CALIFORNIA!
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Organizers and Conveners
U.S.A.: Elizabeth Miller, Jeremy Hourigan, David Stone, Jaime Toro, Kaz Fujita, Paul Layer
Russia: Slava Akinin, Boris Natalin, Andrei Prokopiev, Sergei Sokolov, Alexander Khanchuk, Pavel Minyuik
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Workshop Mandates: · Share knowledge about a part of the earth whose geologic evolution is still poorly known· Explore mutual scientific goals and set research priorities· Energize a series of plans for attaining these goals
NE Russia
U.S.
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NE Russia and N.A. share:
·A linked geologic and plate tectonic history whose details are critical for understanding evolution of our continents and the settingfor our natural resources. ·Pacific plate margin · active subduction · ore deposits, hydrocarbons ·earthquake and volcanic hazards· Arctic margin ·vast poorly known continental shelves ·hydrocarbon potential
(base map from Nokleberg et al. 1998)
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Overview Presentations: Dec. 9, 2004What do we know?
What are the major unsolved tectonic questions?
The plate tectonic framework ofNE Russia: Pacific and Arctic
Perspectives
1. The Pacific View: Warren Nokleberg (U.S. Geological Survey)
2. The Arctic View: Larry Lawver (University of Texas, Austin)
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Overview Presentations: Dec. 10, 2004What do we know?
What are the major unsolved tectonic questions?
1. The Arctic Margin: Elizabeth Miller and Boris Natal’in
2. Verkhoyansk-Kolyma Orogenic Belt: Andrei Prokopiev Jaime Toro
3. Pacific Margin: Jeremy Hourigan, Alexander Khanchuk, Sergey Sokolov4. Magmatic Belts of NE Russia: Slava Akinin and Paul Layer
5. Plate Boundaries, Seismicity and Geophysics: Kaz Fujita, Mikhail Kogan and Vadim Levin
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Overview Presentations:
The Arctic Margin of NE Russia:Outstanding Questions fromthe Arctic Ocean Perspective
Elizabeth Miller and Jaime ToroStanford University, Stanford CA
West Virginia University, Morgantown WV
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Their report: http://www.geo-prose.com/amerasian/
Conveners* Bernard Coakley, Geophysical Institute - UAF * Steve Forman, University of Illinois - Chicago * Rick Murray, Boston University * John Tarduno, University of Rochester
This meeting follows:
NSF Workshop on the Amerasian Basin and its Margins
held June 8th and 9th 2004, Washington, DC
We were there: Kaz Fujita, Paul Layer, Elizabeth Miller, Jaime Toro, Andrei Zayonchek,
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Workshop on the Amerasian Basin and its Margins
•Knowledge of the Arctic Basins is based on the limited record on the continental margins.
•Outpouring of new data from satellites, airplanes, and submarines
Better bathymetry, gravity, and magnetic maps.
•Terrestrial studies new geologic insights.
•New data testable hypotheses about the tectonic, magmatic, and
paleoclimate history of the Amerasian Basin
•Further progress will require international, coordinated field programs (e.g., IPY), including scientific drilling (e.g., IODP).
Their report: http://www.geo-prose.com/amerasian/
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IBCAO (2000)
Main bathymetric features of the Arctic
Ocean
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IBCAO (2000)
EURASIANBASIN
AMERASIANBASIN
Eurasian Basin: Continuation of mid-Atlantic spreading center (<55Ma)
Amerasian Basin: A more complex and debated origin (~ 135-120 Ma)
IODP-ACEX
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http://www.rcom-bremen.de/English/IODP.html
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Jackson (2000)www.cseg.ca/conferences/2000/2000abstracts/316.PDF
www.ecord.org/about/j/533AGUposter.pdf
Where to read about the new results Our knowledge before
now
Late Cretaceous(80 Ma) marine
56 Ma shallow marine
unconformity
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RussiaCanada
Eocene (55 Ma) opening of Eurasian Basin
by Gakkel Ridge spreading
How does this rift end and/or propagate into continental crust?
?
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500 km of new ocean crust… Where and how is this extension accommodatedthrough geologic time?
Laptev Sea
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Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) HannoverSevmorneftegeofizica (SMNG), Murmansk (http://www.bgr.de/)
Rifting in the Laptev Sea: continuation of Gakkel Ridge into Continental Crust
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Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) HannoverSevmorneftegeofizica (SMNG), Murmansk (http://www.bgr.de/)
Seismically mapped normal faults don’t account for all the extension
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Mackey et al.(unpublishedDraft, 2004)
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IBCAO (2000)
EURASIANBASIN
AMERASIANBASIN
LomonosovRidge
Alpha-MendeleevRidge
GakkelRidge
Makarov BasinInterpretation of how the Amerasian
Basin formed affects
interpretations of Lomonosov, Alpha Ridges, Makarov
Basin and Chukchi Cap Chukchi
Cap
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IBCAO (2000)
·Alaskan and Canadian margins are well-characterized (seismic and drilling) compared to the East Siberian Shelf about which nearly nothing is known.
·Limited seismic, dredge, shallow core data from the Canada Basin (Grantz et al.,’90,’98)
·Crustal Transects
·Alpha-Mendeleev Ridge and Makarov Basin are controversial
·New IODP-ICEX hole
U.S.G.S. TACT ProjectNSF CD Bering-
ChukchiProject
ACEX Hole
East Siberian Shelf
Canada Basin
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Other models proposed for the formation of the Amerasian Basin -none except the rotation model
are viable for Alaska given the geologic and magnetic anomaly constraints
Rifting models for Amerasian Basin summarized by Lawver and Scotese (1990) with specific predictions for rift versus transform origin of marginsand the geologic matches of margins. Base map IBCAO (2000)
AmerasianBasin
EurasianBasin
Alaska
Russia
Canada
LomonosovRidge
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Reconstruction of the Arctic at 140 Ma (Lawver et al.2002)
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Reconstruction of the Arctic at 120 Ma (Lawver et al. 2002)
Implications: Lomonosov Ridge (LR) is a transform fault, Chukotka came from Canada, S.Anuyi was a large ocean, Alpha Ridge, a younger Cretaceous hot spot track.
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Geology: Persits and Ulmishek, (2003), USGS
Aeromagnetic DataAeromagnetic Data: : Glebovsky et al. Glebovsky et al. (2000), Naval (2000), Naval Research LabResearch Lab
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Old aeromagnetic data and its interpretations suggested Makarov Basin spreading from 80 Ma to 60 Ma. (Taylor et al., 1981; Vogt et al., 1982)
Seismic velocities suggest continental or thinned continental crust.
Normal fault origin of Lomonosov-Makarov (Sweeney et al., 1982)
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The answers to the origin of Canada Basin lie in Arctic Russia:
·Is Chukotka’s stratigraphy like Canada or like somewhere else?
·Is the South Anyui Zone the remnant of an extensive ocean basin? When did it close ? Does the time of deformation fit the model?
·What is NE Arctic Russia’s magmatic history? Is there evidence for a Cretaceous hot spot track?
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Take-home comments from the Amerasian Basin NSF workshop: What can we do on land?
1. Compile/study location, extent of Paleozoic and older deformational belts in the circum-Arctic region to establish tie points across the basin to determine the origin of Amerasian Basin.
2. Study sedimentary successions that closely pre- and post-date inferred age of Amerasian Basin opening. Distribution, ages, provenance-do these reflect changing paleogeographies? How?
3. How does continental magmatic history of NE Russia relate geographically to Alpha-Mendeleev Ridge? Can these rocks, their age and geochemistry help constrain its origin?
4. Neotectonics, earthquakes, plate boundaries and global tectonics: How is North Atlantic spreading transferred through Russia? What are plate motion linkages between Atlantic spreading and Pacific subduction?