Сафонова Инна Юрьевна

Inna Safonova is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia. M.Sc. in geochemistry (1987) from the Novosibirsk State University (Honors) and in management (2004) from the Russian Business Academy (Honors), Ph.D. in tectonics, geodynamics, petrology and volcanology (2005) from the Institute of Geology SB RAS. Associate Editor of Gondwana Research and Geoscience Frontiers journals. Secretary of the International Association for Gondwana Research. Brain Pool Program Researcher in the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources funded by Korea Foundation for Science and Technology (KOFST; 2010-2012) and Invited Research Fellow in the Earth and Life Science Institute of the Tokyo Institute of Technology funded by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS; 2014-2015). Scientific Associate at the Centre for Russian and Central EurAsian Mineral Studies (CERCAMS), Natural History Museum, London. Her areas of interest are in the Central Asia Orogenic belt and its actualistic examples of the western Pacific with focuses on intra-oceanic arcs and accretionary complexes and their hosted units of oceanic plate stratigraphy (OPS), both sedimentary and volcanic (OIB, MORB). The research fields include igneous geochemistry and petrology; tectonic and magmatic processes of continental growth; magmatism and stratigraphy of paleo-oceans; timing, extent and sources of plume magmatism. Published over 50 SCI research papers. Leader and participant of many national (Russia) and international research projects and agreements (Belgium, China, Germany, Japan, Korea, France, UK, USA). Proposer and Leader of IGCP#592 Project “Continental construction in Central Asia” sponsored by UNESCO-IUGS (2012-2015).

Научные публикации

List of Major Publications (selectively – peer-reviewed paper in SCI journals only; totally >140 works published)

1.Safonova I., Maruyama, S., 2014. Asia: a frontier for a future supercontinent Amasia. International Geology Review. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2014.915586.

2.Simonov V.A., Mikolaichuk A.V., Safonova I.Yu., Kotlyarov A.V., Kovyazin S.V., 2014. Late Paleozoic-Cenozoic intra-plate continental basaltic magmatism of the Tienshan-Junggar region in the SW Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Gondwana Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2014.03.001

3.Yang, G., Li, Y., Safonova, I., Yi, S., Tong, L., Seltmann, R., 2014. Early Carboniferous volcanic rocks of West Junggar in the western Central Asian Orogenic Belt: implications for a supra-subduction system. International Geology Review 56, 823-844.

4.Safonova I., 2014. The Russian-Kazakh orogen: an overview and main debatable issues. Geoscience Frontiers 5, 537-552.

5.Glorie, S., Buslov, M., Zhimulev F., Safonova I., 2014. Provenance of Early Paleozoic sediments at the southwestern margin if the Siberian Craton: insights from detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 82, 115-123.

6.Kurganskaya E.V., Safonova I.Yu., and Simonov V.A., 2014. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of suprasubduction volcanic complexes of the Char strike-slip zone, eastern Kazakhstan: Russian Geology and Geophysics 55, 69–84.

7.Gerya, T., Slabunov, A., Santosh, M., Safonova, I., 2014. Granulites and eclogites in geodynamics: Preface. Gondwana Research 25, 439-441.

8.Safonova, I., Santosh., M., 2014. Accretionary complexes in the Asia-Pacific region: Tracing archives of ocean plate stratigraphy and tracking mantle plumes. Gondwana Research 25, 126-158.

9.Novikov I.V., Vapnik E., Safonova I.Yu., 2013. Mud volcano origin of the Mottled Zone, South Levant. Geoscience Frontiers 4, 597-619.

10.Kusky, T., Windley, B., Safonova, I., Wakita, K., Wakabayashi, J., Polat, A., Santosh., M., 2013. Recognition of Ocean Plate Stratigraphy in accretionary orogens through Earth history: A record of 3.8 billion years of sea floor spreading, subduction, and accretion. Gondwana Research 24, 501-547.

11.Kim, J.Y., Krivonogov, S.K., Lee, Y.J., Woo, J.Y., Oh, K.C., Yang, D.Y., Kim, J.C., Safonova, I.Y., Yamamoto, M., 2013. Climatic stages recorded in sediments of the Gunang Cave, South Korea. Quaternary International 313-314, 194-209.

12.Orkhonselenge, A., Krivonogov, S.K., Mino, K. ,Kashiwaya, K., Safonova, I.Y., Yamamoto M., Kashima K., Nakamura, T., Kim, J.Y. 2013. Holocene sedimentary records from Lake Borsog at the eastern shore of Lake Hovsgol, Mongolia, and their paleoenvironmental implications. Quaternary International 290-291, 95-109.

13.Safonova, I., Simonov, V.A., Obut, O.T., Kurganskaya, E.V., Romer, R., Seltmann, R., 2012. Late Paleozoic oceanic basalts hosted by the Char suture-shear zone, East Kazakhstan: geological position, geochemistry, petrogenesis and tectonic setting. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 49, 20-39.

14.Krivonogov S.K., Takahara H., Yamamuro M., Preis Yu.I., Khazina I.V., Khazin L.B., Safonova I.Yu., Ignatova N.V. 2012. Regional to local environmental changes in southern Western Siberia: evidence from biotic records of mid to late Holocene sediments of Lake Beloye. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 331-332, 177-193.

15.Long X., Yuan C., Sun M., Safonova I., Xiao W., Wang Y., 2012. Geochemistry and U-Pb detrital zircon dating of Paleozoic greywackes in East Junggar, NW China: Insights into subduction-accretion processes in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Gondwana Research 21, 637-663.

16.Krivonogov S.K., Yi, S., Kashiwaya, K., Kim, J.C., Narantsetseg, T., Oyunchimeg, T., Safonova I.Y., Kazansky, A.Y., Sitnikova, T., Kim, J.Y., Hasebe, N., 2012. Solved and unsolved problems of sedimentation, glaciation and paleolakes of the Darhad Basin, Northern Mongolia. Quaternary Science Reviews 56, 142-163.

17.Krivonogov S.K., Yamamuro M., Takahara H., Kazansky A.Y., Klimin M.A., Bobrov V.A., Safonova I.Y., Phedorin M.A., Bortnikova S.B., 2012. An abrupt ecosystem change in Lake Beloye, southern Western Siberia: Palaeoclimate versus local environment. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 331-332, 194-206.

18.Safonova, I.Yu., Buslov M.M., Simonov V.A., Izokh A.E., Komiya T., Kurganskaya E.V., Ohno T., 2011a. Geochemistry, petrogenesis and geodynamic origin of basalts from the Katun’ accretionary complex of Gorny Altai (southwestern Siberia). Russian Geology and Geophysics 52, 421-442.

19.Safonova, I.Yu., Sennikov N.V., Komiya T., Bychkova Y.V., Kurganskaya E.V., 2011b. Geochemical diversity in oceanic basalts hosted by the Zasur’ya accretionary complex, NW Russian Altai, Central Asia: Implications from trace elements and Nd isotopes. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 42, 191-207.

20.Safonova, I., Seltmann, R., Kroener, A., Gladkochub, D., Schulmann, K., Xiao, W., Kim, T., Komiya, T., Sun, M., 2011c. A new concept of continental construction in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (compared to actualistic examples from the Western Pacific). Episodes, v. 34, no. 4, pp. 186-194.

21.Safonova, I.Yu., Rino S., Maruyama, S., 2010a. U–Pb Ages of Detrital Zircons from Recent Sediments of the Yangtze River and Stages of Continental Growth in Southeast Asia. Doklady Earth Sci. 431, 72-77.

22.Safonova, I.Yu., Maruyama, S., Hirata, T., Kon, Y., Rino S., 2010b. LA ICP MS U-Pb ages of detrital zircons from Russia largest rivers: implications for major granitoid events in Eurasia and global episodes of supercontinent formation. Journal of Geodynamics 50, 134-153.

23.Buslov M.M., Safonova I.Yu., Fedoseev G.S., Reichow M., Davies C., Babin G.A., 2010. Permo-Triassic plume magmatism of the Kuznetsk Basin, Central Asia: geology, geochronology and geochemistry. Russian Geology and Geophysics 51, 901-916.

24.Simonov V.A., Safonova I.Yu., Kovyazin S.V., Kotlyarov A.V., 2010. Physico-chemical parameters of Neoproterozoic and Early Cambrian plume magmatism in the Paleo-Asian Ocean. Russian Geology and Geophysics 51, 429-442.

25.Simonov V.A., Safonova I.Yu., Kovyazin S.V., Kurganskaya E.V. 2010. Physico-chemical parameters of petrogenesis pf basaltic complexes of the Katun zone. Litosfera, № 3, p. 111-117 (in Russian).

26.Simonov V.A., Safonova I.Yu., Kovyazin S.V., 2010. Petrogenesis of island-arc complexes of the Char zone, East Kazakhstan. Petrology 18, 59-72.

27.Davies C., Allen M., Buslov M., Safonova I., 2010. Deposition in the Kuznetsk Basin, Siberia: insights into the Permian-Triassic transition and the Mesozoic evolution of Central Asia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 295, 307–322.

28.Safonova, I.Yu., A. Utsunomiya, S. Kojima, S. Nakae, O. Tomurtogoo, A.N. Filippov, K. Koizumi, 2009. Pacific superplume-related oceanic basalts hosted by accretionary complexes of Central Asia, Russian Far East and Japan, Gondwana Research 16, 587-608.

29.Safonova, I.Y., 2009. Intraplate magmatism and oceanic plate stratigraphy of the Paleo-Asian and Paleo-Pacific Oceans from 600 to 140 Ma, Ore Geology Reviews 35, 137-154.

30.Utsunomiya A., Jahn Bor-ming, Ota T., Safonova, I.Yu., 2009. A geochemical and Sr-Nd isotopic study of the Vendian greenstones from Gorny Altai, southern Siberia: Implications for the tectonic setting of the formation of greenstones and the role of oceanic plateaus in accretionary orogen, Lithos 113, 437-453.

31.Reichow M.K., M.S. Pringle, A.I. Al´Mukhamedov, M.B. Allen, V.L. Andreichev, M.M. Buslov, C.E. Davies, G.S. Fedoseev, J.G. Fitton, S. Inger, A.Ya. Medvedev, C. Mitchell, V.N. Puchkov, I.Yu. Safonova, R.A. Scott, A.D. Saunders, 2009. The timing and extent of the eruption of the Siberian Traps large igneous province: Implications for the end-Permian environmental crisis, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 277, 9-20.

32.Le Heron D.P., Buslov M.M., Davies C., Richards K., Safonova I.Yu., 2008. Evolution of Mesozoic fluvial systems along the SE flank of the West Siberian Basin, Russia. Sedimentary Geology, 208, 45-60.

33.Safonova, I.Yu., 2008. Geochemical evolution of the intraplate oceanic magmatism of the Paleo-Asian Ocean from the Late Neoproterozoic to the Early Cambrian. Petrology 16, 492-511.

34.Safonova, I.Yu., Simonov, V.A., Buslov, M.M., Ota, T., Maruyama, Sh., 2008. Neoproterozoic basalts of the Paleo-Asian Ocean (Kurai accretion zone, Gorny Altai, Russia): geochemistry, petrogenesis, geodynamics. Russian Geology and Geophysics 49, 254-271.

35.Dobretsov N.L., Buslov M.M., Rubatto D., Safonova I.Yu., 2006. Shalkar Ophiolite Complex, Northern Kazakhstan: Structural Setting, Age, Geochemistry, and Genesis. Russian Geology and Geophysics 47, 471-481.

36.Buslov M.M., Watanabe T., Fujiwara Y., Iwata K., Smirnova L.V., Saphonova I.Yu., Semakov N.N. (2004) Late Paleozoic faults of the Altai region, Central Asia: tectonic pattern and model of formation. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 23, p. 655-671.

37.Dobretsov, N.L., Buslov, M.M., Safonova, I.Yu., Kokh, D.A. (2004). Fragments of oceanic islands in the Kurai and Katun’ accretionary wedges of Gorny Altai. Russian Geology and Geophysics 45, 1325-1348.

38.Safonova I.Yu., Buslov M.M., Kokh D.A. (2004) Fragments of oceanic crust of the Paleo-Asian Ocean in Gorny Altai and East Kazakhstan: geochemistry and structural setting. Litosfera № 3, 84-96 (in Russian).

39.Safonova I.Yu., M.M. Buslov, K. Iwata, D.A. Kokh, 2004. Fragments of Vendian-Early Carboniferous oceanic crust of the Paleo-Asian Ocean in foldbelts of the Altai-Sayan region of Central Asia: geochemistry, biostratigraphy and structural setting. Gondwana Research 7, 771-790.

40.Buslov M. M., Watanabe T., Safonova I.Yu., Iwata K., Travin A., 2002. A Vendian-Cambrian island arc system of the Siberian continent in Gorny Altai (Russia, Central Asia). Gondwana Res. 5, 781-800.

41.Buslov, M.M., Safonova, I.Yu., Watanabe, T., Obut, O.T., Fujiwara, Y., Iwata, K., Semakov, N. N., Sugai, Y., Smirnova, L.V., Kazansky, A.Yu. and Itaya, T., 2001. Evolution of the Paleo-Asian Ocean (Altai-Sayan Region, Central Asia) and collision of possible Gondwana-derived terranes with the southern marginal part of the Siberian continent. Geoscience journal 5, 203-224.

42.Buslov, M.M., Fujiwara, Y., Safonova, I.Yu., Okada, Sh. and Semakov, N.N., 2000. The junction zone of the Gorny Altai and Rudny Altai terranes: structure and evolution. Russian Geology and Geophysics 41, 377-390.

43.Buslov, M.M., Safonova, I.Yu. and Bobrov, V.A., 1999. An exotic terrane of the Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician oceanic crust in the northwestern Gorny Altai (Zasurin Formation): structural position and geochemistry. Doklady Earth Sciences 368, 650-654.

44.Buslov, M.M., Safonova, I.Yu. and Bobrov, V.A. (1998) New geochemical data on boninites from Kurai ophiolites, Gorny Altai. Doklady Earth Sciences 361, 244-247.

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