EGU22-4322
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4322
EGU General Assembly 2022
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Amerasia Basin: new data and new geological model

Anatoly Nikishin1, Eugene Petrov2, Elizaveta Rodina1, Ksenia Startseva1, Andrey Chernykh3, Sierd Cloetingh4, Gillian Foulger5, and Henry Posamentier6
Anatoly Nikishin et al.
  • 1Geological Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
  • 2The Federal Subsoil Resources Management Agency, Moscow, Russia
  • 3Gramberg All-Russia Scientific Research Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources of the Ocean (VNIIOkeangeologia), Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • 4Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  • 5Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, Science Laboratories, South Rd. DH1 3LE, UK
  • 6Consultant, 25 Topside Row Drive, the Woodlands, TX 77380, USA

We present an interpretation of the regional seismic lines for the Amerasia Basin, and new data from analyses of rocks from the Alpha-Mendeleev Rise. This report is based primarily on interpretation of 2D seismic lines and analysis of magnetic and gravity field anomalies, from data acquired through the Russian Arktika-2011, Arktika-2012, Arktika -2014, and Arktika-2020 projects. We use also open Canadian seismic data (Shimeld et al., 2021) and published data. We propose that the Alpha-Mendeleev Rise is a Eurasian aborted double-sided volcanic passive continental margin with stretched and hyper-extended continental crust intruded by basalts. This rise has a number of SDR-like seismic units. The age of volcanism is ~125-100 Ma. The Podvodnikov, Toll, Mendeleev, Nautilus, Stefansson basins have SDR-like seismic units. The top of SDR-like units has a similar age in all basins. The Alpha-Mendeleev Rise has an axis of symmetry. The East North Chukchi, Toll, Mendeleev, Nautilus, Stefansson basins are coeval basins with very stretched continental crust. They are connected by a long united axial line of hyperextension, subsidence and volcanism.  The Makarov, Podvodnikov, West North Chukchi basins are coeval basins with very stretched continental crust. They are connected by a long united axial line of hyperextension, subsidence and volcanism.  The Alpha-Mendeleev Rise and all mentioned basins originated simultaneously in the same geodynamic environment during the HALIP magmatic epoch at nearly 125-100 Ma. This study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Grant 22-27-00160).

How to cite: Nikishin, A., Petrov, E., Rodina, E., Startseva, K., Chernykh, A., Cloetingh, S., Foulger, G., and Posamentier, H.: Amerasia Basin: new data and new geological model, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-4322, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4322, 2022.