Legend to Figures 1-7.
A. Continental paleogeographic and paleotectonic settings: 1 - orogenic
edifice, 2 - denudation plain, 3 - intermontane basin or
foredeep with continental sedimentation, 4 - active margin
volcano-plutonic chain, 5 - epicontinental nearshore or marine
basin, 6 - marginal shelf, 7 - deep water (bathyal)
intracontinental basin, 8 - continental slope and rise of a
passive margin.
B. Oceanic and backarc basinal paleogeographic and paleotectonic settings:
9 - primitive deeply submerged volcanic arc, 10 - mature
volcanic island arc, 11 - accretionary prism,
12 - microcontinent, 13 - carbonate platform, 14 - ocean and
backarc basin floor and abyssal plain.
C. Active tectonic structures: 15 - spreading axis, proven or inferred,
16 - principal strike slip or transform fault, 17 - subduction
zone, proven or inferred, 18 - overthrust, 19 - rift.
D. Other features: 20 - barrier reef, 21 - ocean-floor siliceous sediments,
22 - clay and carbonate sediments, 23 - flysch/olistostrome
apron, 24 - ocean-floor tholeiitic basalts, 25 - within-plate
subalkaline and alkaline volcanics, 26 - paleomagnetic vectors
and mean paleolatitudes, 27 - names of structural units (see
list), 28 - names of principal faults (see list).
Names of structural units:
A. Massifs, microcontinents, blocks, and tectonic zones: ALM =
Alay microcontinent, AMD = Amu-Darya block, AMN = Altay-Mongolia
block, BAR = Barnaul massif, BDM = Baydaratsky massif, BEC =
Bechasyn zone, BEL = Beltau zone, BES = Beishan, BOR = Borkoldoy
block, BSN = Baisun massif, CAT = Chatkal, CDZ = Central Junggar
Alatau, CHI = Chinghiz, CKK = Central Karakum, CKL = Central
Kunlun, CTS = Central Tien Shan, DZF = Junggar foldbelt, ENR =
Yenisei Range, EUF = East Urals folded zone, EUR = East Urals, GAL
= Gorny Altay, GCM = Greater Caucasus massif, GKT = Greater
Karatau, KHM = Khanty-Mansi massif, KHR = Kharbey microcontinent,
KOK = Kokchetav massif, KRB = Karabogaz massif, MGZ = Magnitogorsk
zone, NDZ = Northern Junggar Alatau, NJU = Nyurolka massif, NKL =
North Kunlun, NPM = North Pamir, NTS = North Tien Shan, NUF =
North Urals, OUR = Osh-Uratyube block, OZF = Ob-Zaisan foldbelt,
PAR = Parapamiz, QAD = Tsaidam massif, RAL = Rudny Altay, SAL =
Salair, SDZ = Southern Junggar Alatau, SGM = Southern Gobi massif,
SLZ = Salym zone, SRD = Syr-Darya block, STS = South Tien Shan,
SUF = South Urals, TAR = Tarbagatay, TIM = Timan, TKO =
Tom-Kolyvan zone, TMM = Tuva-Mongolia massif, TUR = Turgay
block, UKM =Ukrainian massif, ULN = Ulan block, ULU = Ulutau, URT
= Ural-Tau, UYU =Ustyurt, VOR = Voronezh massif, VUR =
Volga-Urals arch, WAR = Vartovsk massif, WSN = Western Sayan, ZAZ
= Zeravshan-Alay zone.
B. Sedimentation basins: ACB = Anuy-Chu, AGB = Angara-Lena, ALB =
Almantaisky, BOB = Borotalinsky, CSB = Chu-Sarysu, DBB =
Junggar-Balkhash, DDB = Dneper-Donets, DZB = Junggar, KAB =
Karpinsky Range, KHB = Khatanga, KUB = Kuznetsk, LEB = Lemva, MIB
= Minusinsk, MNB = Mangyshlak, MSB = Moscow, NCB = North Caucasus,
ORB = Ortosuisky, OZB = Ob-Zaisan, PCB = Peri-Caspian, RYB =
Rybinsk, SAB = Sakmara, SDB = Syr-Darya, TGB = Tunguska, TNB =
Teniz, TPB = Timan-Pechora, TUB = Tuarkyr, UFB = Uralian
foredeep, WKB = Vashan-Kalmakasuisky, WMB = Western Mugodzhary.
C. Island arcs and volcano-plutonic belts: ALA = Alay, BEA = Beltau, BGA =
Bogdoshan, BHA = Barunkhuray, BKA = Barlyk, BSA = Baisun, CFA =
Caucasus Frontal Range, CHA = Chinghiz, CKA = Central Kazakhstan,
CKL = Central Kunlun, CTA = Chinese Tien Shan, DEA = Denisovsky,
EDA = Eastern Junggar, EUA = East Urals, ILA = Ili, IRA = Irendyk,
JOA = Zholotag, JSA = Zharma-Saur, KUA = Kurama, MGA =
Magnitogorsk, NBA = Northern Barunkhuray, NUA = North Urals, OUA =
Osh-Uratyube, PBA = Balkhash, RAA = Rudny Altay, SAA = Salym, SDA
= Southern Junggar, SKA = Sakmara, SLA = Salair, STA = South Tien
Shan, SUA = Sultan-Uizdag, TAA = Tagil, TKA = Tom-Kolyvan, UBA =
Ubagan, VAA = Valeryanovsky.
D. Principal faults: AK = Akbastau, AB = Altay face, BH = Boro-Horo, CC =
Central Chinghiz, CK = Central Kazakhstan, DA = Darbut, DN =
Dzhalair-Naiman, ES = Eastern Sayan, EU = East Urals, IR =
Irtysh, KA = Kuznetsky Alatau, KK = Karakunlun, KO = Kobda, NE =
Northeastern Altay, TF = Talas-Fergana, TK = Tekturmas, WB =
Western Balkhash.