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At the seminar on geology of sedimentary basins, Vsevolod Efremenko, jr research scientist of the Laboratory of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Paleontology and Stratigraphy, IPGG SB RAS, gave a presentation on using comprehensive C, O, and Sr isotope characteristics for solving problems of the Boreal–Tethyan correlation on the example of the Neocomian formations of northern Siberia. The research is supervised by Oksana Dzyuba, Dr Sc (geol.-mineral.), head of the laboratory.


Vsevolod Efremenko giving a presentation


Researchers have studied a total of 102 samples of belemnite rostra from the Boyarka River, Nordvik Peninsula and Anabar River outcrops.

Based on a comprehensive C, O, and Sr isotope characteristic of the Lower Cretaceous of northern Siberia obtained from isotope–geochemical study of carbonate material in the belemnite rostra originating from the analyzed outcrops, researchers managed to solve a number of problems including: correlation of the Upper Berriasian and Ryazanian stage; clarification of the boundary layers of the lowermost Valanginian; identification of the base of the upper Valanginian–lowermost Hauterivian interval.

According to V Efremenko, in combination with the previous results of other researchers, the new data provide a substantiation for improvement of the position of the stage and sub-stage boundaries.

The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant No. 22-17-00228, at the A.A. Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Published by IPGG Press Service