Dr Sergey V. Zyabrev
(this week spelling of Sergei Ziabrev)

Lead Research Scientist

Institute of Tectonics and Geophysics
Russian Academy of Sciences
Kim Yu Chen Str., 65, Khabarovsk, 680000, Russia

tel: +61-243-228-6769
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email: sziabrev@yandex.ru
PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS

Architecture and evolution of convergent plate margins: understanding through integration of structural, stratigraphic and sedimentological data
  • accretionary wedges - structural styles, growth patterns, oceanic plate stratigraphy, timing of subduction-accretion
  • ophiolites - biostratigraphic constraints on the timing of ophiolite generation, marine sedimentary veneer and patterns of sedimentation
  • forearc basins - stratigraphy, facies architecture, sedimentary evolution
  • structure and origin of melanges
  • architecture and evolution of Tethys and her remnants in the Yarlung Tsangpo suture zone
  • India-Eurasia collision, docking of Gondwanan microcontinents with Asia
  • tectonic assembly of Asia
  • tectonic zonation of the NW Pacific, terrane assembly and dispersal
Radiolarian biostratigraphy
  • application to evolution of convergent plate margins and paleoceanography
  • discrete biostratigraphic scales and numerical correlation, unitary associations
Other scientific interests (more like hobbies)
  • life origin and evolution, global climate variations, silica and carbonate cycles, K/T and P/T boundaries
EXPERTISE
Mesozoic Radiolaria and radiolarian biostratigraphy, clastic sedimentology (turbidite systems) and basin analysis, field-based structural geology

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
International Association of Radiolarian Palaeontologists, InterRad
Island Arc, Associate Editor

EDUCATION
2002 Ph.D. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Thesis: Tectonic evolution of Dazhuqu and Bainang terranes, Yarlung Zangbo suture, Tibet as constrained by radiolarian biostratigraphy (outstanding) - online

1992 Ph.D. (Cand.Sci.) USSR Supreme Attestation Committee
Thesis: Deep-water deposits, paleogeography, and paleotectonics of West-Sakhalin trough

1980 M.Sc. Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Thesis: Structural evolution of the Upper Proterozoic series, Severomuiskii Range suture, South Siberia
WORK EXPERIENCE
2003-to date Lead Research Scientist, Inst. Tectonics & Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Mesozoic subduction-accretion and post-accretional dispersal along the NW Pacific convergent margin. Sikhote-Alin Research Group
1998-2002 Curator, Dept. Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong.
Structure, radiolarian biostratigraphy and tectonic evolution of Tethyan remnants within the Yarlung-Zangbo suture zone, Tibet. Tibet Research Group
1996-1998 Director for Science, Bolshekhekhtsirsky State Nature Reserve, Khabarovsk, Russia.
Strategy of nature research and conservation, geological evolution and industrial pollution of the protected area, liaison with WWF.
1992-1998 Senior Research Scientist, Inst. Tectonics & Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Mesozoic tectonic evolution of NW Pacific convergent margins, structure and radiolarian biostratigraphy of accretionary wedge terranes, correlation with similar terranes in Japan and China
1980-1992 Research Scientist, Inst. Tectonics & Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Mesozoic forearc regions in the Eastern Russia, their sedimentary and structural evolution.
Field experience: over 20 field seasons of research & geological mapping in remote areas of eastern Russia and Tibet
ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS
TALKS TO CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS - 2000 on
  • S. Zyabrev, A. Ando, 2015. Earliest Cretaceous radiolarians from the TAMU Massif on Shatsky Rise, North Pacific, Leg IODP 324: stratigraphic, taxonomic and paleobiogeographic issues – 14th Meeting of the International Association of Radiolarian Paleontologists, March 22-26 2015, Antalya, Turkey
  • Zyabrev, S., 2009. Structure and radiolarian biostratigraphy of the East Sakhalin accretionary complex, eastern Russia: more on accretion and post-accretional displacements along the East Asian convergent plate margin in the Cretaceous. 12th Meeting of the International Association of Radiolarian Paleontologists, September 14-17, 2009, Nanjing, China
  • Aitchison, J., Chan, G., Chan, J., Cibik, B., Davis, A., Liu, J., Luo, H., Marques, E., McDermid, I., and Zyabrev, S., 2009. Mesozoic Radiolarians from the northern margin of Greater India (plenary). 12th Meeting of the International Association of Radiolarian Paleontologists, September 14-17, 2009, Nanjing, China
  • Ziabrev, S., 2006. Early Cretaceous accretionary complexes in the Russian Fareast: Offset production or exported goods? (plenary, public). 11th meeting of the International Association of Radiolarian Paleontologists, Wellington, Mar. 19-24, 2006.
  • Ziabrev, S., Aitchison, J., McDermid I., 2003. Radiolarian biostratigraphy of the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture, Tibet - a key to understanding the evolution of eastern Tethys. 10th meeting of the International Association of Radiolarian Paleontologists, Lausanne, Sep. 7-13, 2003.
  • Ziabrev, S., Aitchison, J., 2002. Jurassic-Cretaceous subduction and accretion on the east margin of Asia. Tectonic Processes in the Evolution of China, Croucher Advanced Studies Institute, Hong Kong University, April, 23-28, 2002, Program with Abstracts.
  • Ziabrev, S., Aitchison J.C.; Badengzhu, Davis A.M., Liu J., Luo H., 2001. More about the missing Tethys in the Yarlung Zangbo Suture. In: Grasemann B., Stuewe-K. (eds) Special abstracts issue; 16th Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet workshop. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 19 (3A) 82-83.
  • Ziabrev, S.V., Aitchison, J, Badengzhu, Davis, A, Luo, H, Liu, J, 2000. Tethyan relics in the Yarlung-Tsangpo Suture, Tibet: Structural setting, radiolarian ages and their tectonic implications. 9th Meeting of the International Association of Radiolarian Paleontologists, Blairsden, CA, USA, Program with Abstracts, 72.
  • Ziabrev, S.V., Aitchison, J.C., Badengzhu, Davis, A.M., Luo, H., Liu, J, McDermid I, Malpas, J, 2000. Oceanic deposits in the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone: structural setting, radiolarian ages and their tectonic implications. In: 15th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop, abstracts: Earth Science Frontiers, 7 suppl., 118.
SELECTED TECHNICAL PAPERS (peer reviewed) Google Scholar citations
  • SV Zyabrev, 2017. Structure and Folding of the Kiselyovka-Manoma Accretionary Complex in the Lower Amur Region, Russian Far East. Russian Journal of Pacific Geology 11 (6), 395-407
  • ZX Guo, YT Yang, S Zyabrev, ZH Hou, 2017. Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Mohe-Upper Amur Basin reflects the final closure of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean in the latest Jurassic–earliest Cretaceous. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 145, 494-511
  • IP Voinova, SV Zyabrev, 2017. Petrogeochemical conditions and geodynamic settings of volcanic rocks in the Kiselyovka–Manoma accretionary complex (Russian Far East).
    Russian Journal of Pacific Geology 11 (4), 284-296
  • S. V. Zyabrev, I. P. Voinova, M. V. Martynyuk, E. K. Shevelev, 2016. Yakchi Chert-Volcanogenic Formation – Fragment of the Jurassic Accretionary Prism in the Central Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East – Russian Journal of Pacific Geology, 2016, 10(5) 365–385
  • S. Zyabrev, 2015. Seamount subduction likely provoked prolific mass wasting on the slope in the central part of the East Sakhalin accretionary wedge, eastern Russia – Island Arc 2015, 24(3) 282-287
  • S. V. Zyabrev, V. I. Anoikin, A. V. Kudymov, 2015. Structure, Age, and Mechanism of Emplacement of the Amur and Kiselevka–Manoma Accretionary Complexes of the Lower Amur Region, Far East, Russia – Geotectonics, 2015, 49(6) 533–546
  • Zyabrev, S.V. & Anoikin, V.I., 2013. New age data on the deposits of the Kiselevka-Manoma accretionary complex based on radiolarian fossils. Russian Journal of Pacific Geology 7 (3), 217-225 (PDF RUS ; PDF ENG)
  • Abrajevitch, A., Zyabrev, S., Didenko, A., Kodama, K., 2012. Paleomagnetism of the West Sakhalin Basin: evidence for northward displacement during the Cretaceous. Geophysical Journal International, 190, 3, 1439–1454.
  • Baxter, A.T., Aitchison, J. C., Zyabrev, S.V., Ali J.R., 2011. Upper Jurassic radiolarians from the Naga Ophiolite, Nagaland, northeast India. Gondwana Research, 20, 638-644.
  • Zyabrev, S.V., 2011. Stratigraphy and structure of the central East Sakhalin accretionary wedge (Eastern Russia). Russian Journal of Pacific Geology, 2011, 5(4), 313-335 (translated from Russian). Originally published in Tikhookeanskaya Geologiya,2011, 30(4), 49-73. (PDF RUS ; PDF ENG)
  • Zyabrev, S.V., 2011. Oceanic deposits of the Amur terrane: their ages and tectonic significance. Russian Journal of Pacific Geology, 2011, 5(2), 155-163 (translated from Russian). Originally published in Tikhookeanskaya Geologiya, 2011, 30(2), 75-84. (PDF RUS ; PDF ENG)
  • Baxter, A., Aitchison, J., Ali, J., Zyabrev S., 2010. Lower Cretaceous radiolarians from the Spongtang ophiolite, Ladakh, NW India: Implications for Neo-Tethyan evolution. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 167, 511-517
  • Baxter, A., Aitchison, J., Zyabrev S., 2009. Radiolarian age constraints on Mesotethyan ocean evolution, and their implications for development of the Bangong-Nujiang suture, Tibet. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 166, 689-694.
  • Zyabrev, S.V., 2009. On biostratigraphy of accretionary complexes in Russian Far East (critical review of several papers) Tikhookeanskaya Geologiya = Pacific Geology, 28(3), 105-112 (in Russian).
  • Zyabrev, S.V., Kojima, S., Ahmad, T. 2008. Radiolarian biostratigraphic constraints on the generation of the Nidar ophiolite and the onset of Dras arc volcanism: Tracing the evolution of the closing Tethys along the Indus – Yarlung-Tsangpo suture. Stratigraphy, 5(1), 99-112. (PDF) Disclaimer: This material has been published in Stratigraphy, the only definitive repository of the content. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by Micropaleontology Press.
  • Aitchison, J.C., McDermid, I.R.C., Ali, J.R., Davis, A.M., Zyabrev, S.V. 2007. Shoshonites in Southern Tibet Record Late Jurassic Rifting of a Tethyan Intraoceanic Island Arc. The Journal of Geology, 115, 197-213.
  • Zyabrev, S.V., Martynyuk, M.V., Shevelyov, E.K., 2005. South-westerly portion of Kiselyovsko-Manominsky accretionary complex, Sikote-Alin: Stratigraphy, subduction-related accretion and post-accretional displacements. Tikhookeanskaya Geologiya = Pacific Geology, 24(1), 45-58 (in Russian).
  • Abrajevitch, A.V., Ali, J.R., Aitchison, J.C., Badengzhu, Davis, A.M., Liu,J., Ziabrev, S.V., 2005. Neotethys and the India-Asia collision: Insights from a palaeomagnetic study of the Dazhuqu ophiolite, southern Tibet. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 233, 87-102
  • Ziabrev, S.V., Aitchison, J.C., Abrajevitch, A.V., Badengzhu, Davis, A.M., Luo, H., 2004. Bainang Terrane, Yarlung-Tsangpo suture, southern Tibet (Xizang, China): A record of intra-Neotethyan subduction-accretion processes preserved on the roof of the World. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 161(3), 523-538. Disclaimer: This material has been published in the Journal of the Geological Society (London) the only definitive repository of the content. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by The Geological Society of London.
  • Zyabrev, S.V., Perestoronin, A.N., Zharov, A.E., 2004. Commencement of silisiclastic sedimentation in the West Sakhalin forearc, an aspect of the early history of the Sakhalin-Hokkaido accretionary system. Tikhookeanskaya Geologiya = Pacific Geology, 23(1), 53-61 (in Russian). (PDF)
  • Aitchison, J.C., Davis, A.M., Abrajevitch, A.V., Ali, J.R., Badengzhu, Liu, J., Luo, H., McDermid, I.R.C., Ziabrev, S.V., 2004. Stratigraphic and sedimentological constraints on the age and tectonic evolution of the Neotethyan ophiolites along the Yarlung Tsangpo suture zone, Tibet. - In: Dilek, Y. & Robinson, P. T. (eds.) Ophiolites in Earth History. The Geological Society of London Special Publication 218, 147-163.
  • Ziabrev, S.V., Aitchison, J.C., Abrajevitch, A.V., Badengzhu, Davis, A.M., Luo, H., 2003. Precise radiolarian age constraints on the timing of ophiolite generation and sedimentation in the Dazhuqu terrane, Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone, Tibet. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 160, 591-599. Disclaimer: This material has been published in the Journal of the Geological Society (London) the only definitive repository of the content. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by The Geological Society of London.
  • Aitchison, J.C., Abrajevitch, A., Ali, J.R., Badengzhu, Davis, A.M., Luo, H. Liu, J.B., McDermid, I. Ziabrev, S., 2002. New insights into the evolution of the Yarlung Tsangpo suture zone, Xizang (Tibet), China. Episodes, 25, 90-94.
  • Davis, A.M., Aitchison, J.C., Badengzhu, Luo, H., Zyabrev, S., 2002. Paleogene island arc collision-related conglomerates, Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone, Tibet. Sedimentary Geology, 150, 247-273.
  • Aitchison, J.C., Badengzhu, Davis, A.M., Liu, J., Luo, H., Malpas, J., McDermid, I., Wu, H., Ziabrev, S., Zhou, M.F., 2000, Remnants of Cretaceous intra-oceanic subduction system within the Yarlung-Zangbo suture (southern Tibet). - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 183, 231-244.
  • Ziabrev, S.V., 2000. Stratigraphic record of chert clastic complex in Khekhtsir Range and kinematics of asymmetric folds as indicators of accretion by subduction. Geology of the Pacific Ocean, 15(1), 107-119.
  • Zyabrev, S., Aitchison, J.C., Badengzhu, Davis, A., Luo, H., Malpas, J., 1999. Radiolarian biostratigraphy of supra-ophiolite sequences in the Xigaze area, Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone, Southern Tibet. Radiolaria (Newsletter of the International Association of Radiolarian Paleontologists), 17, 13-19.
  • Zyabrev, S., Matsuoka, A., 1999. Late Jurassic (Tithonian) radiolarians from a clastic unit of the Khabarovsk complex (Russian Far East): Significance for subduction accretion timing and terrane correlation. The Island Arc, 8(1), 30-37. Disclaimer: This material has been published in The Island Arc the only definitive repository of the content. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by Blackwell Science Asia Pty Ltd.
  • Zyabrev, S.V., 1996. Cretaceous radiolarian fauna from the Kiselyovsky subterrane, the youngest accretionary complex of the Russian continental far east: Paleotectonic and paleogeographic implications. The Island Arc, 5(2), 140-155.
Geological report
  • Zyabrev, S.V. (MacDonald, D., Stewart, J., eds.) 1996. Geological Development of the West Sakhalin Trough: Report No.635 Russian Series, Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme, Cambridge 98 p.
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