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This paper formulates requirements for geological exploration of quarry fields intended for open-pit coal mining, using Kuzbass and the Chulym-Yenisei Basin as principal examples. It argues that the large potential for open-pit production requires integrated planning of adjacent coal seams and quarr…
This paper proposes a practical method for using organic remains in the routine correlation of borehole and exploration-line sections in coal deposits of the Erunakovskaya Formation of Kuzbass, where facies variability, limited outcrops, and lack of lithological marker horizons complicate stratigrap…
This paper examines exploration methodology for coal mine fields in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk district of Kuzbass, where productive coal-bearing sequences are complicated by variable seam thickness, folding, and tectonic dislocations. Using comparisons of exploration data, reserve calculations, borehole…
This paper outlines methodological principles for exploring mine fields in the Karaganda coal basin, with emphasis on the concealed and tectonically complex Dolinka Formation of the Churubai-Nura district. It relates exploration practice to the basin’s stratigraphy, block faulting, seam grouping, li…
This paper examines how the density and arrangement of detailed exploration and coal sampling networks should be selected for Kuzbass coal deposits. It relates exploration methodology to the basin’s geological conditions, including tectonic type, seam thickness and stability, degree of cover, explor…
This paper examines how small structural disturbances, including minor faults, folds, seam pinches, swellings, and fracturing, affect coal mining in the Kuznetsk Basin and how they may be forecast before workings expose them. Drawing on accumulated mine tectonic observations from several Kuzbass dis…
This paper analyzes the complex tectonic structure of Mine Field No. 9/15 in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk coal district of Kuzbass, where faulting and folding strongly affect coal extraction and mine planning. Drawing on accumulated mine documentation, drilling data, underground observations, geological sk…
This paper examines the tectonic structure of the Mine 5/7 field in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk coal district of the Kuzbass, with particular attention to small structural forms that complicate coal extraction but are often missed during exploration. Using mine observations, structural mapping, and analys…
This paper analyzes the tectonic structure of the Karaganda depression and basin, emphasizing the relation between Paleozoic coal-bearing strata, major faults, and later Mesozoic cover. Using stratigraphic relationships, drilling results, structural mapping, and geophysical evidence, it distinguishe…
This paper outlines the tectonic setting of the western Karaganda coal basin, especially the Churubai-Nura and Tentek districts, where valuable Dolinka suite coking coals are concealed beneath thick Cenozoic cover. Drawing on exploration reports, mine documentation, and regional tectonic interpretat…
This paper presents a petrographic description of coal seams 3, 9, and 14 from the Tagarysh deposit in the southwestern Erunakovsky district of the Kuzbass, based on samples from adits and microscopic examination of thin and polished sections. It characterizes the seams by macroscopic coal varieties…
This paper characterizes the previously little studied upper coal seams of the Baidaevskoye deposit in the Kuzbass, where volatile matter decreases upward above seam 31 despite the expected stratigraphic trend. Using petrographic examination of polished briquette sections, quantitative maceral count…
This paper characterizes Jurassic and Cretaceous pelecypod assemblages from the continental Mesozoic deposits of the Kuznetsk and Chulym-Yenisei basins in Western Siberia, a fauna previously much less studied than the associated flora. Drawing on new collections from outcrops, boreholes, and coal-be…
This paper examines the Permian to Triassic boundary in the western Erunakovsky district of the Kuznetsk Basin using cores from the North Talda exploration line, with lithological, petrographic, mineralogical, and paleontological observations. The authors characterize the upper Erunakovskaya Formati…
This paper describes drilling results from the North Taldinskaya exploration line in the western Yerunakovsky district of Kuzbass, where a continuous section of the upper Yerunakovskaya Formation and its contact with the Triassic was obtained. Using borehole correlations, lithological descriptions, …
This paper describes fossil seeds from the Balakhonka and Kolchugino series of the Kuznetsk Basin, emphasizing both external morphology and, where preservation permits, the cellular structure of the integument. It proposes a morphological key to seed genera, distinguishes several epidermal cell type…
This paper provides a paleontological characterization of the coal-bearing Kolchugino deposits of the Nikitinsky deposit in Kuzbass, based on about 400 core samples from 50 boreholes. It analyzes the distribution of fossil flora and rarer fauna through a roughly 750 m section, using these data to su…
This paper describes Cirravus novojilovi sp. n., a new fossil cirriped from the Usyat Subformation of the Upper Balakhonka Series in the Kuznetsk Basin, based on a single left tergum impression from the Glushinka area. The specimen is compared with the previously known Kuzbass species Cirravus jawor…
This paper compares the lithological composition and inferred depositional conditions of the Balakhon Series in southern and northern parts of the Kuznetsk Basin, a coal-bearing succession whose stratigraphic and genetic interpretation remained insufficiently resolved. Based on field descriptions of…
This paper describes newly collected bivalve mollusks from the Intermediate Subformation in the West Butovka sector of the Kemerovo district, addressing a previously sparse faunal record between the Alykaevo and Usyat subformations of Kuzbass. Based on stratigraphic occurrence and systematic descrip…
This paper presents a stratigraphic and coal-bearing characterization of the Upper Balakhon and Lower Balakhon formations in the Tom-Usa and Mrassky districts on the southeastern margin of Kuzbass. Using exploration drilling lines and comparisons with riverbank and core data, the authors construct a…
This paper characterizes the fauna of the Balakhon Series in the Kuzbass near the Krapivinsky dome, using collections from borehole cores and several outcrops in the Zmeinka River basin. It documents an uneven faunal distribution and distinguishes intervals corresponding to brachiopod-bearing Mazuro…
This study examines lamellibranch mollusks from the Ostrog Formation of the Kuznetsk Basin, using collections from the Staraya Balakhonka, Ermaki, Voskresenka, and Kameshok areas to assess the stratigraphic age and depositional conditions of the enclosing rocks. Comparison of identified taxa with Ca…
This note addresses the disputed stratigraphic age of the Ostrog Formation in the Kuznetsk Basin, responding to renewed arguments for an Upper Carboniferous to Lower Permian assignment. Benediktova reviews proposed evidence for a long pre-Ostrog hiatus and reexamines paleontological comparisons, esp…
This article examines disputes over the stratigraphic subdivision of the coal-bearing deposits of the Kuznetsk Basin, especially the continued use of the 1934 lithological scheme after conferences in 1954 and 1956 had approved a revised framework. Khalfin argues that the older scheme, based on varia…
This paper examines the use of paleontological horizons and boundaries for stratigraphic correlation, focusing on coal-bearing deposits of the Kuznetsk Basin. It argues that biostratigraphic boundaries may have a dual character: sharp boundary levels produced by abrupt environmental change and fauna…
This paper examines principles for the detailed classification of tectonic faults, especially for practical geological mapping and mine work in deposits with complex fault structures such as Kuzbass coal fields. Belitskii argues that classifications based mainly on the true direction of displacement…
This article examines the stratigraphy, facies variability, and conditions of Jurassic coal accumulation in the eastern part of Western Siberia, especially the Kuznetsk and Chulym-Yenisei basins. Drawing on borehole, outcrop, lithological, paleobotanical, and coal-petrographic data, it compares Lowe…
This paper examines the distribution, lithological composition, and facies changes of the Upper Paleozoic Balakhon Series and its analogues in southern Western Siberia. Using published stratigraphic data together with field and core observations from areas including the Minusinsk Basin, the Beloozer…
This document summarizes the resolutions adopted by the Section on the Geology of Coal-Bearing Basins at the 1957 Conference on Problems of the Geology of Siberia. Based on discussions of reports on exploration methods, tectonics, stratigraphy, paleontology, lithology, and coal petrography in the Ku…
This note develops the apparatus needed to apply the method of singularities to fluid flow calculations in radial-axial turbines of general form. It formulates the governing equations for periodic lattices of sources and vortices, reduces the source and vortex problems to analogous potential and str…
This study examines whether a heterogeneous catalyst containing a beta emitting isotope can influence the dehydration of cyclohexanol to cyclohexene. Magnesium sulfate catalysts containing controlled additions of sodium sulfate were prepared in radioactive and nonradioactive paired forms, using sulf…
This paper describes an algorithm for a universal program automating the numerical solution of the plane Dirichlet problem for the Laplace equation on general domains using finite difference methods. The proposed procedure encodes parametrically given boundaries, replaces them by a grid polygon, cla…
This study examines the kinetics of zinc amalgam anodic dissolution and zinc ion discharge, focusing on exchange currents as indicators of the discharge, ionization stage in fast electrode processes. Exchange currents were measured by a radioactive tracer method over varied zinc amalgam and zinc sul…
This paper gives a sufficient criterion for a sequence of real numbers in the unit interval to be completely uniformly distributed. The criterion assumes a uniform upper bound, proportional to volume, for the limiting frequency with which consecutive blocks of any dimension fall in an arbitrary para…
This paper examines the relation between dipole moments and reactivity in vinylacetylene hydrocarbons, addressing whether substituents alter the polarization of the conjugated double and triple bond system. Using Debye’s dilute-solution method in benzene at 20°C, the authors measured dipole moments …
This paper analyzes subharmonic oscillations in an elastic rod with hinged ends and nonlinear inertia arising from a concentrated mass on a movable support, under a concentrated periodic transverse force. Using a single-mode approximation and Galerkin’s method, the author derives algebraic condition…
The study examines how nickel content affects the electrochemical and corrosion behavior of chromium steels under passivating conditions. Using potentiostatic polarization measurements in 0.1 N sulfuric acid under nitrogen, supplemented by photocolorimetric determination of dissolved Fe, Cr, and Ni,…
The paper studies forced finite-amplitude vibrations of a hinged rod with one elastically yielding support, governed by a nonlinear equation containing both axial elastic and inertial nonlinearities. It proposes an approximation in which the harmonic excitation is replaced by a time dependence simil…
This study investigates the electroacoustic efficiency of a spark discharge in water as a source of high-amplitude positive-pressure pulses. Using a capacitor discharge system with controlled spark-gap length, capacitance, and voltage, the authors recorded current, voltage, and acoustic pressure wav…
This paper completes the proof of a comparison theorem for complete twice continuously differentiable Riemannian spaces whose sectional curvature is bounded below by a positive constant. Extending earlier work and using limiting arguments, nonbranching of shortest arcs, and comparison with the const…
This paper addresses the forecasting of smoothed meteorological fields at the middle level of the atmosphere using the absolute vorticity transport equation for the stream function. Treating the motion as turbulent, it develops a cumulant-statistical formulation following Keller’s closure assumption…
This paper examines the relation between the degree of luminescence polarization produced by polarized excitation and by natural excitation, extending the Vavilov and Levshin formula beyond its usual dipole, isotropic-medium setting. By integrating polarization contributions over excitation-vector o…
The paper studies traveling wave solutions of rank greater than one for the equations of gas dynamics, extending the notion of simple traveling waves for quasilinear systems. For a polytropic gas, the authors derive conditions under which a rank 2 traveling wave in two spatial variables possesses th…
This note studies extremal problems for real polynomials with multiple monotonicity conditions on an interval or on the real line, under admissible linear constraints on their coefficients. It proves existence theorems describing extremal elements with minimal oscillation in the classes of multiply …
This study compares the catalytic cyclization of n-pentane and n-hexane to five-membered ring hydrocarbons over platinized charcoal, in the context of earlier work on paraffin cyclization. Experiments with purified hydrocarbons at low space velocity showed that n-pentane is unusually resistant, givi…
