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AN: GP41A-0837    [Abstracts]
TI: The Setting of the Okhotsk-Sea Micro-Plate Northern Boundary and its Seismicity
AU: * Sedov, B M
EM: sedov@neisri.magadan.ru
AF: Magadan EMSD, Skuridina 6B, Magadan, 685024 Russian Federation
AB: The Sea of Okhotsk is surrounded by seismic zones. That is why we believe that its water area corresponds spatially to hard platform. The Okhotsk-sea micro-plate in triangular form is located at the joint of the Pacific, North-Amerikan, and Eurasian plates. It is bounded from the west by sub-meridional zone of deep sesmogenic faults spreading through the Sakhalin island. From the east, micro-plate is bounded by subduction zones, extending along the Kuril Islans and the eastern coast of Kamchatka. The northern boundary of the Okhotsk-sea plate is considered differently by different authors. The analysis of data of the marine seismic exploration by the method of common deep point, deep seismic sounding, gravitation field and the anomalous magnetic field, and also the seismological observation by the equipment make possible to conclude that the northern boundary of the Okhotsk-sea micro-plate has the sublatitudinal extending and spatially coincides with wide zone of deep faults confided to the coast. On land and offshore, this zone is marked by the line of riftogenic basins filled with Cenozoic continental sediments. On the continent, their thickness is not more than 1500-2000m, although on the offshore it reaches 8-10 km. The basins are mostly spread in meridian direction. The epicenters of the crust earthquakes are spatially related with these basins. This fact testifies of the right-lateral faults. Cenozoic sediments in basins of land are broken by numerous fault-shifts with the summary amplitude of horizontal displacements up to 1.5 km and by the vertical ones up to the first hundreds of meters. The northern boundary of the Okhotsk-sea micro-plate is marked by the change of the Earth's crust type: the continental type on the north, and transitional type on the offshore. Geological and geophisical data make possible to suppose that the northern boundary of micro-plate in primagadanskaya part coincides with the Benioff paleozone that closed its active existence in Paleogene.
DE: 8100 TECTONOPHYSICS
DE: 8107 Continental neotectonics
DE: 8110 Continental tectonics--general (0905)
DE: 8123 Dynamics, seismotectonics
SC: Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism [GP]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting