A Guide to the Russian Academy of Sciences - University of Texas ...

1) the Paleontology and Stratigraphy Laboratory: Dr. Iuri D. Zakharov, D. Geol.
S. graduated from the geological faculty of the Far East Polytechnical Institute in
1958 and is a specialist in Eurasia Perm'ian and Triassic systems;
2) the Regional Geology and Tectonics Laboratory;
3) the Lithology Laboratory: Dr. Pavel V. Markevich, D. Geol. S., is an expert in
lithogenesis in the transition zone from Asia to the Pacific. He graduated from
Kishinev University in Moldova in 1956 and has worked at the institute since 1972;
4) the Hydrothermal Systems of the Ocean Laboratory: Dr. Oleg V. Chudaev,
D. Geol. S., graduated from the Moscow Geologic Prospecting Institute and is a
specialist in oceanic hyrothermal lithogenesis and mineralization;
5) the Intrusive Magmatism Laboratory: Dr. Stepan S. Zimin, D. Geol. S., a
student of Academician Iurii Kuznetsov, has worked at the institute since 1961 and
specializes in mafic and ultramafic and ophiolitic magmatic activity of the Pacific
margin of Asia;
6) the Metamorphic and Metasomatic Formations Laboratory;
7) the Petrology of Volcanic Formations Laboratory;
8) the Experimental Petrology and Mineralogy Laboratory;
9) the Mineralogy Laboratory;
10) the Regional Geology Laboratory: Dr. Aleksandr I. Khanchuk, a specialist in
accretional geology and tectonics, heads the Laboratory and has worked at the
institute since 1976; he is presently working on a joint research project with
geologists of the US Geological Survey;
11) the Geochemistry of Igneous Rocks Laboratory;
12) the Iostopic Geochemistry Laboratory;
13) the Metallogeny of Ore Districts Laboratory;
14) the Geodynamics of Ore-controlling Systems Laboratory;
15) the Gold-bearing Formations Laboratory;
16) the Physico-Chemical Studies Laboratory;
17) the X-ray and Electron Microscopy Studies Laboratory, and
18) the Mathematical Methods in Geology Laboratory.
Other of scientists of note at the institute include: Drs. M. Mishkin, O. Avchenko, S.
Korenbaum, L. Plyusnina, V. Sakhno, and A. Lennikov--all in igneous petrology
and metamorphism, and, Drs. Vadim Khomich and V. Ratkin--in ore geology and
regional metallogeny. Professor Dr. Nikolai P. Vasilkovskii, D. Geol. S., has
worked at the institute since 1979. He is an expert in regional geology, a supporter
of the geosynclinal hypothesis and the irreversibility of the Earth's evolution. His
studies from 1930 to 1964 covered Central Asia, and since 1965 his work is on the
Russian Far East. Professor Dr. Ivan N. Govorov, D. Geol. S., graduated from
Moscow State University in 1943 and has worked at the institute since 1960
serving as a Deputy Director and as Head of the Geochemical Department, and at
present is, like Professor Vasilkovskii, a leading researcher. He has studied the
problems of ocean magmatism, the deep-seated sources of ore material, and the
geochemical zonation of geosphere deep layers. These scientists and other
researchers in the institute have described three crust types that form the basement
of the Pacific "active margin." They have described the stratigraphy of the
Cambrian rocks of the Far East using new and original data obtained by institute
scientists. They have developed new geothermobarometers for the rocks of the
metamorphic complexes were proposed. Major mic types in igneous rocks have
been described and the influence of the inner structure of alumosilicate melts on
their composition was determined. A reference book on the physical and crystallochemical
properties of natural and synthetic compounds has been published.
Research cruises in the Pacific Ocean have shown that ophiolitic complexes that
originated in different geodynamic environments outcrop in recent deep-water
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