Posted on Feb 15, 2002

John I. Garver, professor of geology, and colleagues at
Yale University and the Institute of the Lithosphere in Moscow
have published two papers on the evolution of the
Kamchatka collision zone that has been the focus of this collaborative
research group since the mid 1990's. Under all the young volcanoes
of Kamchatka, the bedrock geology is dominated by an ancient
collisional suture zone where a volcanic arc collided with the Asian
mainland. The papers are “Sources of zircons from Cretaceous and
lower Paleogene terrigenous sequences from the southern Koryak
upland and western Kamchatka” in Lithology and Mineral
Resources, and “Kinematics of the Vatyna-Lesnaya thrust
(Southern Koryakia)” in Geotectonics.