Laboratory of Geochemistry of Igneous and Metamorphic
Rocks Vernadsky Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Petrology and Geochemistry of the oceanic lithosphere and ophiolites.

 

Son travail à bord

Participation in rock sampling and on board petrographic study of obtained samples 

 

Son parcours professionnel

Fields of interest
Petrology and geochemistry of the igneous and metamorphic rocks of the modern oceanic crust and ophiolites. Spatial, temporal and compositional relationships between residual peridotites, plutonic rocks and basalts of modern oceanic lithosphere. Role of hydrothermal circulation in geochemical trends of the oceanic lithosphere evolution.


Field experience
1970-1975 - Precambrian fold belts, Yakutia and Kola Peninsula
1977-1979 - Southern Ural (Paleozoic Ophiolites)
1981 - Lesser Caucasus, Mesozoic Ophiolites
1983-1985 - Olkhon greenstone belts, Baikal Area
1986-1988 - North-Eastern Arctic Basin (De Long Islands)
1987 - Western Syria, Bassit Ophiolites
1987-1990 - Cyprus, Mamonia and Troodos Complexes
2004 - Kamchatka, Suprasubduction Igneous Complexes

Shipboard experience
1976 - 17a-th cruise of r/v "Dmitry Mendeleev", Kurilean Trench and Okhotsk Sea
1979 - 23-th cruise of r/v "Dmitry Mendeleev", Central Pacific
1985 - 2-th cruise of r/v "Academik B.Petrov", Central Atlantic (USSR-France collaboration), chief of dredging team
1987 - 7-th cruise of r/v "Akademik B.Petrov", Central Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, chief of dredging team
1989 19-th Cruise of r/v “Akademik Mstislav Keldysh” North Atlantic (Kings Trough – Palmer Ridge)
1989 - Deputy-Chief of 12-th cruise of r/v "Academik B.Petrov", Central Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea (USSR-USA collaboration)
1991 - Chief-Scientist of 16-th cruise of r/v "Academik B.Petrov", Central Atlantic (USSR-USA collaboration)
2005 - 50-th Cruise of r/v “Akademik Mstislav Keldysh” Broken Spur, Lost City and Rainbow Hydrothermal Fields

 

 

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