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
(VNllzarubezhgeologia, VNlloceangeologia, Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the
Russian 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 deep- sea drilling (leg 1-130), thermo-pressure condition in the sedimentary basins within Circum-Pacific Rim.