Paleostrukture of East Orenburg region

The article states new views on structural features of East Orenburg Oblast. Results of long-term research of geological party of Mineral Deposits and their Investigation Department in RUDN formed the basis of writing the article. Unlike the predecessors considering this territory as a fragment of a double-fold structure of Ural, the authors of the article realize the thought of paleovolcanic structure of the territory. Having carried out photointerpretation of multiband satellite images, the scheme of tectonic disturbances, which is a combination of ring and radial faults, has been received. These disturbances emphasize the large ring structure, the center of which settles down near the Zhetykol lake. The carried-out facies analysis of volcanogenic and sedimentary rocks showed that groups of rocks corresponding to the main facies of volcanic constructions - vent, slope and distal - are outstanding for the territory. Rocks of these facies were formed in two independent tectono-magmatic cycles: the Baikal - Ordovician-Silurian age, and Caledonian - Upper Devonian-Upper Carboniferous age. The magmatism sequence is homodromous in both cycles and particular intrusive facies correspond to each cycle. For the Baikal cycle the intrusions are presented by serpentinite and ultramafite. For the Caledonian cycle the intrusive rocks are presented by complex granitoid intrusions of three-facies composition (the initial stages of intrusion are presented by gabbro and gabbro-diorites, the second phase of intrusion - by diorites, syenites and granodiorites, the third phase - by various granites). Interaction of granitoids with serpentinite leads to remobilization of dunite from serpentinite and to formation of chromite industrial mineralization in the latter. The research results open new opportunities in the analysis of allocation and confinedness of the known endogenous ore objects and predicting the new.