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The Riphean (1500-1450 to 1000-950 Ma, from ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and K/Ar age methods) section of petroliferous peritidal carbonates in the Baikit uplift in the western Siberian Platform contains five sequences, each divided into three to five subsequences, distinguished on the basis of sediment logy and isotope geochemistry. The five sequences deposited in the period from 80 to 100 Ma and reflect major fluctuations of the sea level. The stability of 13C estimates is confirmed by petro-graphical, geochemical, and isotope data (over 350 analyses), which show that early diagenic dolomites may retain primary ¹³C signal subject to only slight changes. The ¹³C values in the lowermost carbonates (1450-1350 Ma, from isotope data) are about zero (-0.2 to 0.5). The overlying section contains long intervals with low positive d¹³C values of 0.5 to 2.0, occasionally up to 3.0, alternating with shorter intervals dominated by negative ¹³C values (to 2.2). The negative shifts correspond to the deposition of lower Yurubchen (~1350 Ma), upper Yurubchen-Dolgokta (1270-250 Ma), Kopcher (1100-1080 Ma), and upper Yukta-lower Tokur (about 1000 Ma) subsequences. The main trends in the sea level fluctuations correlate well with ¹³C variations: The negative isotopic shifts coincide with the boundaries of the five major sequences; the intervals with medium positive ¹³C record high sea stand and correspond to the periods of carbonate shelf aggradation; low ¹³C values often correlate with the boundaries and the lower segments of the subsequences. Isotope and geological data from other regions indicate that the low sea stand periods correlated with the boundaries of the sedimentary subsequences in the Baikit uplift are most likely associated with global geological events and reflect eustatic fluctuations.

Lithological and geochemical interpretation of standard log data for the Bazhenov Formation (southeastern and central West Siberian Plate), their classification and 1:500,000 mapping show an argillaceous-siliceous-sapropelic composition and high organic matter (colloalginite) content of the highly resistive and gamma-active parts of the sections. The Bazhenov deposition was controlled, among other factors, by the bottom topography and the depth of the ocean which transgressed to the south-eastern West Siberian Plate in its early and, especially, intermediate evolution stages. The distribution of rock groups reflected in depth-dependent variations in apparent resistivity made a basis for distinguishing different types and classes of sections within the formation, including those promising for oil and gas.

Three conceptual fundamentals are proposed as a base for estimation of HC resources and simultaneously for analysis and planning of prospecting surveys. The first is the qualitative dynamic approach to recognition of objects for prediction of petroleum potential (reservoirs, cap rocks, traps, trapping areas, and volumes). The second is adaptive support for the oil-geological model of the region to be estimated on the basis of logged information technologies. The third is continuous refinement of HC balance of all kinds on the basis of constant comparison of current local estimates with current results of prospecting surveys. A method of geometrical parameterization is proposed for the Neocomian West Siberian clino-forms. Some implications of the proposed approach are discussed.

Petrological, geochemical, and isotope (U-Pb, Sm-Nd, Sr-Sr, and Ar-Ar) studies of the Yeruda and Chirimba granitoids show that they belong to different magmatic complexes. The Yeruda low-Kcalc-alkalic granitoids (8781.5 Ma, U-Pb dating from zircon) have a geochemistry corresponding to intermediate I-S-type granites. Their primary melts may have been derived from island-arc complexes, strongly contaminated with the material of old continental crust, which were molten as a result of a collision about 880 Ma ago. The Chirimba high-K and high-F subalkalic granitoids (7618 Ma, U-Pb dating from zircon) apparently formed by melting of Early Proterozoic (Sm-Nd model age) crustal substrate, including the lower crustal material. In geochemistry and isotope composition they are similar to A-type granites that formed in postcollisional or within-plate environments. The Chirimba granitoids are 120 Ma younger than the Yeruda rocks and thus cannot have been caused by the same event. Therefore, the region of the Yenisei Range may have experienced repeated accretionary and collisional events in Late Proterozoic time.

Insoluble carbonaceous substance (ICS) encountered in the Sukhoi Log gold deposit was extracted, using special techniques, from bitumen-free shales. Of two groups of ICS concentrators one is light and buoyant in water, platinum-free, and containing a sericite-carbonaceous component (carbon, silicon, aluminum, and magnesium); the other group of ICS concentrators contains carbon and platinum in the ranges of 42.2 to 91.78 and 80 to 1500 ppm, respectively. The presence of platinum may attest to strong bonds between platinum and carbon and their compounds making the Sukhoi Log ores difficult to investigate. In experiments, carbonaceous substances increase their activity on thermal and acid treatment, which may be effectuated in nature as hydrothermal ore formation.

Exemplified by the carbonate-apatites from the phosphate-bearing regolith of the Magan and Yraas Massifs of the Maimecha-Kotui Province of ultrabasic-alkaline rocks and carbonatites, the EPR spectra of [CO₂]^-, [CO₃]^-, and [CO₃]^3- radicals observed in them have been shown to be typo-morphic and, thus, appropriate for separating endo-genetic and super-gene varieties.
Analysis of experimental data shows that the spectra in endo-genetic and super-gene apatites are complicated super-positions owing to several individual centres. Computer simulation by means of the ESR1 program permitted us to recognize them and to identify and calculate proportions (weights) of components in complex spectra. It has also been documented that the form of absorption lines in endo-genetic specimens is isotropic, and in super-gene ones, anisotropic, i.e., isotropic and anisotropic EPR spectra of carbonate radicals with corresponding parameters are recorded.
This signature reflects dynamic characteristics of radicals (rotating or fixed in the structure) and is due to molecular bound water, which is always present in super-gene apatites and absent from endo-genetic high-temperature varieties as inferred from data of chemical analysis, IR spectroscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance.

The paper presents a solution to the forward acoustic logging problem for a multi-pole acoustic radiator located in a non-cylindrical well off its axis. The modelling investigates how the non-cylindrical well geometry and the displacement of the radiator from the well axis influence the parameters of the measured elastic waves.

The main stratigraphic datums of the Late Precambrian in Siberia are the Uchur-Yudoma, Baikal-Lena, and Yenisei-Angara structure-facies areas (SFA) of the periphery of the old Siberian Platform. Correlation of local stratigraphic subdivisions in structure-facies areas and zones of each of them has been refined. This allowed safe comparison of stratigraphic schemes of the above-mentioned SFA, reasonable support to their common event framework, and following the Baikalid belt along the whole margin of the southern Siberian Platform. The boundaries of the main stratigraphic divisions of the Siberian Neoproterozoic such as Mayaian (Kerpylian + Lakhandinian), Baikalian, Yudomian, or Vendian define principal tectonic restructurings. These units are separated from the underlying formations by the event boundary having something in common with the Grenwill orogeny. The information obtained in Siberia (microfossils, geochronology) suggests the Upper Riphean age of the Mayaian.
The Baikalian unit (850-650 Ma) is separated from the enclosing stratigraphic subdivisions by the Lower and Upper Baikalian intense tectonic events. The Baikalian geotectonic stage and related Baikalids are meaningful only within its volume. All the mentioned recurrent events result from the interaction of the margin of the Siberian Craton with its surrounding microcontinents and oceanic crust or are related to motion of lithosphere plates. The boundaries dividing the Baikalian and Vendian units into two parts have also an event base.
Though the Baikalian unit, like other subdivisions of the General Scale of the Late Precambrian (Riphean and Vendian), was initially substantiated tectonically, now it is characterized by quite a representative set of geochronological and paleontological signatures. Of great importance is that it contains glacial deposits, which is in agreement with the general cooling reflected in the name Cryogenian, the Baikalian-coeval subdivision of the International Precambrian Scale. The Baikalian is to be introduced into the General Stratigraphic Scale of the Russian Late Precambrian and into the chronostratigraphic version of the International Scale.

A section is described, which includes the upper part of the Vendian, Lower Cambrian, and lower Middle Cambrian strata. The section is situated on the right bank of the Yenisei River about 5 km downstream from Plakhinsky Island. It has been established that the rocks in the section under study differ signifficantly in lithology from the formations (Izluchina, Sukharikha, Krasny Porog, and Shumny) of the Igarka district typical of this age interval. It is confirmed that a break exists between the Early and Middle Cambrian, which covers the greatest part of the Botomian Age (except the lower part of the Calodiscus-Erbiella Zone) and extends to the Anopolenus henrici-Corynexochus perforatus Zone of the Middle Cambrian Mayaian Age. Abundant remains of the Cambrian fauna have been found and identified: small-shell organisms, trilobites, algae, brachiopods, and gastropods. For the first time this section has been characterized to a sufficient degree. The boundary between the Vendian and Cambrian strata has been drawn, and the entire range of deposits to the Upper Cambrian strata has been stratified.