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The Middle Miocene Il’inskii Regional Stage of Western Kamchatka: Mollusk Assemblages and Paleobiogeographic Interpretations

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The results of study of the Middle Miocene Il’inskii Regional Stage of Western Kamchatka and its typical mollusks are presented. Its age analogs are identified in Japan, on Sakhalin, and in the Koryak Upland. The features of the distribution of mollusk assemblages of the beginning of the Middle Miocene are revealed at various latitudes of shelf zones of Northwestern Pacific. It is suggested that the warm (subtropical and low boreal) mollusk assemblages migrated at the beginning of the Middle Miocene from the latitudes of Japan to Northern Kamchatka. This event was probably related to the global Miocene warming, which led to certain changes in the oceanic hydroregime, in particular, to the movement of relatively warm water masses to the north. In the North Pacific, this event followed the tectonic reconstructions, which affected the evolution of marine transgression reflected in the formation of sedimentary complexes of many regions of the world.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like with gratitude to remember the remarkable colleagues who also studied the Cenozoic mollusks of the Far East seas and who discussed in the past these biogeographical problems: hydrobiologists O.A. Skarlato, A.N. Golikov, and A.P. Kuznetsov and biostratigraphers V.I. Volobueva, V.O. Savitsky, L.S. Zhidkova, and V.N. Sinel’nikova. I am also grateful to S.V. Popov, S.I. Bordunov, and V.S. Vishnevskaya for advice on improvement of the manuscript.

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This work was supported by state contract of Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 19-05-00361.

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Gladenkov, Y.B. The Middle Miocene Il’inskii Regional Stage of Western Kamchatka: Mollusk Assemblages and Paleobiogeographic Interpretations. Stratigr. Geol. Correl. 30, 431–441 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593822040037

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