Upon completion of sessions, you might undertake a field trip.
The southern part of East Siberia is quite attractive as geologically and mineralogically unique area for conducting field excursions. It is known for diversity of the main rock types featuring the Earth development from the Paleo-Archean to recent time: e.g. Early Precambrian craton formations, Phanerozoic mobile (folded) belts, zones of deep faults, folded and platform areas and continental rifts. They enclose a wide range of ore (iron, manganese and titanium), non-ore (apatite, graphite, talk, muscovite, phlogopite, marble and granite), rare-metal (lithium, tantalum, neobium), semi-precious stones (lazurite, nephrite and ophiocalcite) deposits.
Excursions sights
(1) Southern Baikal on September 10, 2021
One-day bus trip heading from Irkutsk to the south of Lake Baikal. You will observe Early Precambrian metamorphic rocks of granulite facies, the Sharyzhalgay formation at the Angasolka quarry; carbonate rocks of the Slyudjanka formation at the Pereval quarry; Cenozoic basalts with lherzolites at the Tibelty-1 quarry.
Cost of excursion 2500 R
(2) East Sayan Mountains on September 11-13, 2021
To examine old tonalite-trondjemite-granodiorite formations aged to 3.3 Ga, amphibolites, gneisses, ferruginous quartzites, marbles of the Onot greenstone belt about 2.7 Ga, А-type paleo- Proterozoic granitites of the Girgantuy massif (1.871 Ga) and talk deposit «Two Stones». The number of participants is limited to 10-12 persons due to transport logistics and accommodation conditions.
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Ancient tonalite-trondjemite-granodiorite associations (3.3 Ma); amphibolites, gneisses, marbles of the Onot greenstone belt (2.7 Ga); talk deposit «Two Rocks».
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Cost of excursion 7000 R
(3) Olkhon excursion on September 11-13, 2021
Driving from Irkutsk to the Sakhjurta settlement to survey the massifs of restite ultrabasic rocks, gabbro of the
Birkhin and Chernorud massifs and Paleozoic complexes of the granulite and amphibolite facies of metamorphism.
Bus trip to the Olkhon Island area, stay at the tourist camping «Kovcheg of Baikal» located on the shore
of the Olkhon Gate strait near the Sakhjurta settlement.
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Cost of excursion 7000 R.
Considering local conditions you need to have suitable seasonal clothing and sports shoes.
Please indicate your desire to take part in any excursion in your Personal office at the site http://petro2020.igc.irk.ru by April 30, 2021.