All-Russia Research Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean (VNIIOkeangeologiya) (Saint Petersburg, Russia):

Gusev E. A., Head of Department, Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, e-mail: gus-evgeny@yandex.ru

Rekant P. V., Leading Researcher, Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences

Vinogradov V. A., Leading Researcher, Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences

Zinchenko A. G., Senior Researcher

«Marine Arctic Geological Expedition» JSC (Murmansk, Russia):

Shkarubo S. I., Chief Geologist, Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences

Nowadays, the sets of Russian State Geological map (the scale equals 1:1 000 000) are made for near whole Russian Arctic shelf. Data of the third generation sheets of Gosgeolkarta-1000 include all available geological and geophysical information: maps, text and data banks. Regional seismic CDP profiles, gravity and magnetic fields and results of geological surveys are the basis of water area geological maps. Geomorphologic map is very important for mapping of Arctic water areas. It can be determined as a base map for neotectonic faults and mapping of mass wasting structures. In the period of 2007-2012, VNIIOkeangeologiya obtained new geological data from continent-ocean transition zone and adjacent deepwater area of Arctic ocean. New model of sediment cover structure was made for the near-Laptev part of Lomonosov Ridge on the basis of interpretation of seismic data. The bedrock outcrops from the seamounts slopes of Mendeleev Rise where found and sampled during the expedition in 2012. There were also obtained the good evidences for local genesis of dropstones, taken from foots of Lomonosov Ridge and Mendeleev Rise. Making of the State Geological map sheets for land-sea transition zone in the Russian East Arctic shelf is an urgent task for further geological mapping.

1. Gusev E. A., Anokhin V. M., Burskiy A. Z., Vinogradov V. A., Lopatin B. G., Shkarubo S. I. Zapiski Gornogo instituta – Bulletin of National Mineral Resources University, 2008, Vol. 176, pp. 20–22.
2. Opekunov A. Yu., Gusev E. A., Lopatin B. G., Vinogradov V. A., Dundo O. P., Shkarubo S. I., Makarev A. A., Ponomareva I. N. Regionalnaya geologiya i metallogeniya – Regional geology and metallogeny, 2007, No. 33, pp. 28–30.
3. Gusev E. A., Sharin V. V., Dymov V. A., Kachurina N. V., Arslanov Kh. A. Razvedka i okhrana nedr – Prospect and protection of mineral resources, 2012, No. 8, pp. 87–90.
4. Gusev E. A., Kostin D. A., Markina N. V., Rekant P. V., Sharin V. V., Dorechkina D. E., Zarkhidze D. V. Regionalnaya geologiya i metallogeniya – Regional geology and metallogeny, 2012, No. 50, pp. 5–14.
5. Dorechkina D. E., Rekant P. V., Korshunov D. A., Portnov A. D. Zapiski Gornogo instituta – Bulletin of National Mineral Resources University, 2012, Vol. 195, pp. 33–36.
6. Ivanov V. L. Gornyi Zhurnal – Mining Journal, 2012, No. 3, pp. 71–76.
7. Rekant P. V., Pyatkova M. N., Nikolaev S. D., Taldenkova E. E. Donno-kamennyy material otroga Geofizikov kak petrotip porod fundamenta yuzhnoy chasti khrebta Lomonosova (Severnyy Ledovityy okean) (Bottom-rock material of Geofizikov spur as a petrotype of rocks of foundation of Southeren part of Lomonosov Ridge (Arctic Ocean)). Geologiya i geoekologiya kontinentalnykh okrain Evrazii. Vypusk 4 (Geology and geoecology of Eurasian continental borderland. Issue 4). Moscow : GEOS, 2012, pp. 29–40.
8. Rekant P. V., Gusev E. A. Geologiya i geofizika – Russian Geology and Geophysics, 2012, Vol. 53, No. 11, pp. 1497–1512.
9. Morozov A. F., Petrov O. V., Shokalskiy S. P., Kashubin S. N., Kremenetskiy A. A., Shkatov M. Yu., Kaminskiy V. D., Gusev E. A., Grikurov G. E., Rekant P. V., Shevchenko S. S., Sergeev S. A., Shatov V. V. Regionalnaya geologiya i metallogeniya – Regional geology and metallogeny, 2013, No. 53, pp. 34-55.
10. Kabankov V. Ya., Andreeva I. A., Ivanov V. N., Petrova V. I. Geotektonika – Geotectonics, 2004, No. 6, pp. 33–48.
11. Vinogradov V. A., Goryachev Yu. V., Gusev E. A. Skvoznye strukturnye zony shelf – okean Vostochnoy Arktiki : trudy VNIIOkeangeologii (Open-ended structural zones of Eastern Arctic shelf-ocean: proceedings of VNIIOkeangeologiya). Saint Petersburg, 2010, Iss. 7, Vol. 210, pp. 32–47.
12. Metodicheskoe posobie po geomorfologicheskomu kartografirovaniyu dna akvatoriy (morskogo i okeanicheskogo dna) v komplekte Gosgeolkarty-1000/3 (Textbook of methodics on geomorphological mapping of water areas bottom (sea and ocean bottom) in complect of Gosgeolkarta-1000/3). Saint Petersburg : A. P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute, 2009, 49 p.