A Tectonophysical Model of the Formation of the Fault Structure of the Natalka Ore Field: Specialized Mapping Results
摘要
The aim of the research was to apply the tectonophysical approach to develop a model for the formation of the fault structure of the Natalka ore field (NOF), within which the large Natalka and Omchak gold deposits (Magadan oblast, Russia) are located. During our research, we implemented methodological approaches within the NOF and its environs, which are part of specialized structural mapping. Our research included collecting field geological and structural information based on mass measurements of “silent” (without signs of displacement) fractures and larger faults, conducting paragenetic analysis of fracture and fault zones using complete standards of secondary fracture systems for fault zones of different ranks and types, reconstructing local stress tensors, restoring types of stress state at the regional level, and determining their spatiotemporal relationships. Based on interpretation of specialized mapping materials, the structural position of the Natalka ore field at the intersection of wide zones of influence of the Tenkinsky and Inyakan–Kolyma faults was clarified. Stages and phases of the formation of the fault structure of the nodal junction were identified; the regional strike-slip mode with a generalized orientation of the compression axis in the NW–SE direction and the extension axis in the NE–SW direction was reconstructed for the ore stage; the key role of the secondary extension environment in the NE–SW direction in the formation of ore-bearing faults of the Natalka deposit in relation to the strike-slip mode was revealed, the ore-controlling and ore-localizing role of different-rank fault structures was established. As a result of the study, a tectonophysical model of the formation of the fault structure of the NOF was developed, which is considered to be preliminary until verified by physical experiment data, but in the proposed version it can be used as a basis for forecasting constructions.