New data
on the geology of the Late Jurassic to Holocene sediments cover of the World and
associated mineral resources (oil, gas, ferromanganese nodules, ores of massive
sulphides and other metals) have been compilled in the Atlas at scale
1:25,000,000 and 1:10,000,000. The work was performed by scientists from four
Institutes of Russia (VNIIzarubezhgeologia, VNIIoceangeologia, Vernadsky
Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of theRussian Academy of Sciences and Geological Institute of the
Russian
Academy of Sciences). The
Atlas shows variation of thickness and formational composition of the large
complexes (Upper Jurassic-Early Cretaceous, Upper Cretaceous Eocene,
Oligocene-Neogene, Pliocene-Pleistocene), distribution of oil/gas and ore
deposits in each complex, data of deepsea drilling (leg 1-130), thermo-pressure condition in the sedimentary
basins within Circum-Pacific Rim.