Seismotectonics of the transitional region from the Baikal Rift Zone to orogenic rise of the Stanovoi range

• Published in: Geotectonics Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 25 - 44
• Main Authors: Ovsyuchenko, A. N., Trofimenko, S. V., Marakhanov, A. V., Karasev, P. S., Rogozhin, E. A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica 01-01-2010; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Fieldwork; Geological time; Geophysics; Mountains; Plate tectonics; Seismic hazard; Seismology; Structural Geology; Russia; Russia, Yakutia; Russia, Baikal Rift Zone; Strike Slip Fault; Rift Basin; River Valley; Strike Slip; Fault Zone
• ISSN: 0016-8521; 1556-1976
• DOI: 10.1134/S0016852110010036

This paper is based on the data obtained during the field study of active faults carried out in 2005–2006 in the Chita and Amur oblast and South Yakutia in connection with detailed seismic demarcation of the projected East Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline route. The comprehensive geomorphic and geophysical fieldwork was focused on paleoseismogeology and accompanied by trenching in the zones of reactivated faults. These works allowed us to specify the available information on the present-day structure, seismotectonic regime, and potential seismic hazard of the conjugation of the Baikal Rift Zone and the arched-block rise of the Stanovoi Ridge.