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ASI-02 Geology and mineral resources of Northern and Central Eurasia - Part 2
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Geological maps of the Northern Eurasia (Russian Arctic): A contribution to the assessment of mineral and energy resources
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Valerii Kaminsky, Russian Research Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean (VNII Oceangeologia) (Russian Federation)
Oleg Petrov, A.P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI) (Russian Federation)
Tatiana Koren', A.P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI) (Russian Federation)
Tamara Litvinova, A.P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI) (Russian Federation)
Nikolay Sobolev, A.P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI) (Russian Federation)
Sergey Strel'nikov, A.P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI) (Russian Federation)
Vyacheslav Feoktistov, A.P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI) (Russian Federation)
Vladimir Ivanov, Russian Research Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean (VNII Oceangeologia) (Russian Federation)
Oleg Suprunenko, Russian Research Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean (VNII Oceangeologia) (Russian Federation)
Alexander Smirnov, Russian Research Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean (VNII Oceangeologia) (Russian Federation)
Boris Lopatin, A.P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI) (Russian Federation)
Vladimir Glebovskii, Russian Research Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean (VNII Oceangeologia) (Russian Federation)
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The Arctic Region represents a unified complicated and interconnected geodynamic and landscape supersystem that influences not only a development of corresponding countries, but also the planet Earth as a whole. The main future prospects of mineral and energy resources growth are considered to be confined to the Arctic.
The Russian Arctic with its 90% of gas and 60% of oil resources is seen as the main segment within the belt of hydrocarbon accumulation in the Circum-Arctic Region. In addition, there were forecasted unique deposits of nickel, platinum, gold, rare metals, and other minerals. At present, in order to meet economic requirements the intensification of geological studies aiming at new discoveries of hydrocarbon reservoirs and ore provinces are greatly needed.
The continental part of the Russian Arctic is covered by 1:1M scale geological surveys and this work is carrying out in the marine part. However, the state of art of Arctic geological researches, especially within the shelf area, is not yet to be compared with that of the other regions of the Northern Eurasia.
The present studies within the framework of the international project "Atlas of geological maps of the Circum-Arctic at 1:5,000,000 scale": were aimed at compilation of bedrock geology, tectonic, paleogeographic and potential fields maps as well the metallogenic map and one of energy resources at 1:2.5M scale. The next step of these studies is to summarize all achieved geological and geophysical data on the Russian Arctic and to integrate them into the bedrock geology and geophysical maps at 1:5M scale for the whole Circum-Arctic region, which are compiled as a result of joint efforts of the geological surveys of Arctic countries. By the example of the Circum-Arctic bedrock geology map one can see what a difficult task it is to work out the unified legend, to correlate our regional stratigraphic units with the present International stratigraphic chart-2008, to make unification of magmatic and metamorphic rock units according to new isotopic-geochronological data and to compile the unified database.
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