Ophiolites of the Eastern Peninsulas zone (Eastern Kamchatka): Age, composition, and geodynamic diversity

• Published in: Island Arc
• Main Authors: Tsukanov, Nikolay V., Kramer, Wolfgang, Skolotnev, Sergey G., Luchitskaya, Marina V., Seifert, Wolfgang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2007
• Subjects: Kronotskaya; Pikezh; Kamchatka
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1738.2007.00579.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1440-1738.2007.00579.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1440-1738.2007.00579.x

Abstract The geological, geochemical and mineralogical data of dismembered ophiolites of various ages and genesis occurring in accretionary piles of the Eastern Peninsulas of Kamchatka enables us to discriminate three ophiolite complexes: (i) Aptian–Cenomanian complex: a fragment of ancient oceanic...