THE RESULTS OF SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONARY GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL STUDIES OF MINERAL RESOURCES IN FAR EASTERN SEAS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE PACIFIC OCEAN (GEOMIR PROJECT)
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Published:2024-08-26
Issue:2
Volume:52
Page:72-106
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ISSN:1564-2291
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Container-title:Journal of Oceanological Research
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language:
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Short-container-title:JOR
Author:
Shakirov R. B.1, Sedin V. T.1, Yatsuk A. V.1, Sattarova V. V.1, Astakhova N. V.1, Kolesnik O. N.1, Valitov M. G.1, Li N. S.1, Shakirova M. V.2, Pletnev S. P.1, Ponomareva A. L.1, Maltseva E. V.1, Nengyou Wu3, Duc Anh Le4, Pawan Dewangan5, Savelieva E. E.1
Affiliation:
1. V. I. Il’ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute FEB RAS 2. Pacific Institute of Geography FEB RAS 3. Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology, Geological Survey, Ministry of Natural Resources of China 4. Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology 5. National Institute of Oceanography, CSIR, Goa, India
Abstract
The paper presents a brief overview of the results of integrated geological, geophysical and oceanographic studies for the period 2017–2023, for which interregional generalizations were made on some promising areas of study of underwater mineral resources and the environment. The data on geological underwater objects, in particular, manganese ores of the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk and adjacent water areas; rare-earth ores of the Tomtor ore cluster, ancient and modern coastal-marine placers of the Laptev Sea coast are presented; barite ore occurrences “Barite Hills” (in the Sea of Okhotsk); ferromanganese formations of the Eastern Arctic shelf of Russia; coastal marine placers of the shelf and coast of the Far Eastern seas, including gold-bearing placers. including gold-bearing placers of the shelf zone of the south of Primorye and north of Sakhalin, titanomagnetite placers of the Kuril Islands, gold-bearing placers of the North Sakhalin Plain and others. Direct signs of hydrocarbons were obtained in areas previously considered unpromising (including the South China Sea), gas hydrate accumulations were mapped and studied in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan, prospecting for gas hydrates in the Bering Sea was prepared, and comparative studies of hydrate-bearing capacity of the marginal seas of the NW Pacific and the Indian Ocean were carried out. The main features of the distribution of lithologic and gas-geochemical indicators of hydrocarbon gases in bottom sediments of the southwestern sector of the East Siberian Sea, which is the least studied in terms of oil and gas content, were studied. Based on the data of gas-geochemical studies, the prospects of oil and gas content of the eastern shelf of the Arctic were assessed. The results of geomicrobiological studies in the seas of the Far East region are described. In some cases deepsea sediments themselves (peloid-like sediments, etc.) appear to be a separate huge mineral resource. At present, the “continent-ocean” transition zone and neutral waters can become the most important source of replenishing the mineral resource base of these mineral components. The presented research corresponds to the main objectives of the GEOMIR project of the national action plan within the UN Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) and was carried out mainly in accordance with the directions of the state assignment. Studies of gas hydrates were carried out within the framework of the WESTPAC working group “Gas hydrates and methane fluxes in the Indo-Pacific region” (CoSGas, 2021–2024), established on the initiative and under the leadership of Russia.
Publisher
P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS
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