The monograph is devoted to the spatio-temporal activation of Holocene volcanism within the Miocene-Quaternary volcanic zone of the Sredinny Range of Kamchatka. The pattern of volcanic activation, grouping elements and periodic pulses of endogenous activity, as well as their chronological relationship with episodes of endogenous activity increasing of the North Pacific. The characteristics of individual volcanic centers and the largest eruptions are provided. Age determinations of eruptions are based on detailed tephrochronological research and extensive radiocarbon dating.
For a wide range of professionals in the field of geology, geochronology, volcanology, petrology, geography,
geomorphology, paleoclimatology, ecology and geobotany.

Petrographic Code of Russia is a set of fundamental rules and recommendations approving and confirming the unified and standardized petrographic terminology and nomenclature of endogenic and coptogenic formations, as well as the taxonomy of petrographic units. The unified notional base, which forms the basis of the Petrographic Code, is used during compilation of the State Geological Maps at different scales, serial legends to them, during forecast-prospecting works, thematic investigations, as well as during map compilation in the framework of international projects.

The Code of the second and third editions has a new structure as compared to the first one, new appendices are prepared. Taking into account new requirements of the geological practice, new sections on sedimentary-volcanogenic formations, migmatites etc. are added. Sections related to metamorphic and metasomatic formations are reworked; distinguishing of fluid-explosive rocks bearing different mineral types into an individual genetic type is substantiated. The content of most of previous provisions is changed; many articles are reworked or abbreviated, new ones are included. Recommendations of the Commission on Systematics in Petrology of the International Union of Geological Sciences are taken into account during development of the Code.

Предлагаемая книга посвящена исследованию индикаторной роли оливин - шпинелевой ассоциации в генезисе пород базит - гипербазитового ряда. На базе экспериментальных результатов получены уравнения, позволяющие определять равновесность - неравновесность этой минеральной ассоциации с расплавом, определять температуру этого равновесия, оценивать Fe2+/Mg отношение и содержание магния в расплаве. На примере ряда природных объектов (базальты БТТИ, коматииты, включения в алмазах, ультрабазитовые комплексы расслоенных интрузий) показана приложимость и информативность полученных уравнений. Приведена аргументация в пользу твердофазного генезиса алмазов и предложены критерии поиска сейсмогенных алмазов, обсуждается информативность магнезиальной шпинели, как показателя платиноносности ультрабазитов.
Книга адресована студентам старших курсов геологических специальностей, аспирантам и специалистам, ведущим исследования основных – ультраосновных пород.

This monograph shows the results of two interrelated lines in scientifi c investigation. 600 equations based on experimental data «INFOREX» resulted from the first line of scientifi c investigation. These equations allow calculating concentration of elements in melt, values of temperature and pressure; estimating equilibrium of phases and melts. Many of them are unique and the analogous equations used by petrologists have worse statistical characteristics. The second line of the scientifi c investigation specifi es and generalizes genetic peculiarities of bodies and massifs, composed of rocks of basite-hyperbasite series with different facial, formational and geodynamic characteristics by means of the obtained equations.
Among the results the most essential are re-equilibration of compositions of spinel–olivine associations in effusive rocks with basic-ultrabasic composition, except for paragenesis in basalts from the rift valley of the Mid-Ocean Ridge; limited depth of crystallization (not less than 15 kb, 40–45 km) of most magmas with basicultrabasic composition; characteristics of Ca behaviour in olivine; non-magmatic genesis of diamantes from kimberlites.
This monograph would be useful for geologists, PhD students and students of geological departments.

Содержащая сочинения естествоиспытателей экспедиции, составленная Александром Постельсом: Геогностические замечания (сочинение А. Постельса); О Каролинских островах (сочинение доктора Мертенса; Обозрение зоологических занятий экспедиции (сочинение барона Китлица) и Замечания академика Брандта о полипах и проч., исследованных Мертенсом.

В сборнике содержатся материалы, представленные в виде устных докладов на ХI региональной молодежной научной конференции «Природная среда Камчатки», проходившей в рамках Недели студенческой науки 16 апреля 2012 г. в Институте вулканологии и сейсмологии ДВО РАН
(г. Петропавловск-Камчатский). В сборник включены материалы докладов, прошедших предварительный отбор.