# Preliminary Publications Book 1 from Project on Mineral Resources, Metallogenesis, and Tectonics of Northeast Asia

#### By Sodov Ariunbileg 1, Gombosuren Badarch 1, Nikolai A. Berzin 2, Alexander N. Bulgatov 3, Noosoi Chimed 1, Aleksey V. Deikunenko 4, Gunchin Dejidmaa 1, Michael F. Diggles 9, Elimir G. Distanov 2, Dangindorjiin Dorjgotov 1, Ochir Gerel 5, Ivan V. Gordienko 3, Ayurzana Gotovsuren 6, Duk-Hwan Hwang 7, Alexander I. hanchuk 8, Richard D. Koch 9, Robert J. Miller 9, Warren J. Nokleberg 9, Alexander A. Obolenskiy 2, Masatsugu Ogasawara 10, Demberel Orolmaa 1, Vladimir S. Oxman 4, Leonid M. Parfenov 11, Ludmila I. Popeko 12, Andrey V. Prokopiev 4, Alexander P. Smelov 4, Vitaliy I. Sotnikov 2, Sadahisa Sudo 10, Vladimir F. Timofeev 4, Felix F. Tret'yakov 4, Valery A. Vernikovsky 2, Mao Ye 13, and Alexander P. Zadgenizov 4Scientific Editors:Warren J. Nokleberg 8, Vera V. Naumova 7, Mikhail I. Kuzmin 14, and Tatiana V. Bounaeva 14

### U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report OF 99-165

### 1999

This report is preliminary and has not been reviewed for conformity with U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) editorial standards or with the North American Stratigraphic Code. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

1 Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia2 United Institute of Geology, Geophysics, and Mineralogy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia3 Buryat Institute of Geology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ulan-Ude, Russia4 Institute of Geology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russia5 Mongolian Technical University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia6 Monrud Company, Mineral Exploration and Mining Company, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia7 Korea Institute of Geology, Mining, and Materials, Taejon, South Korea8 Far East Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia9 U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, USA10 Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan11 Yakutian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russia12 Institute of Tectonics and Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Khabarovsk, Russia13 Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China14 Institute of Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia

## Introduction

This report consists of preliminary data tables, maps, and interpretative articles compiled in late 1997 and early 1998 for a new project on the Mineral Resources, Metallogenesis, and Tectonics of Northeast Asia (Eastern and Southern Siberia, Mongolia, North-eastern China, South Korea, and Japan).



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## Files in this Web Publication and Data Organization

At the root (base level) of this report are the 1_README.TXT file and the documentation for this preliminary publication (OF99_165.DOC and OF99_165.PDF).  The chapters on the CD-ROM, including maps, tables, and articles, are stored in the following directories under the indicated file names. Articles and tables are in Word 6 format (*.DOC). Plane-text files are in ASCII (*.TXT).  Maps and figures are in Corel Draw 7 format (*.CDR), Adobe Illustrator format (*.AI), or Encapsulated PostScript format (*.EPS). All articles, tables, maps, and figures are in Adobe Acrobat Reader format (*.PDF).

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ISBN: 0-607-92477-2

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To contact the senior author, email Warren Nokleberg (wnokleberg@usgs.gov).

The URL of this page is  https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1999/of99-165/Date created: May 10, 1999Last modified: August 10, 2006 (mfd)

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