ENGINEERING GEOLOGY OF THE WORLD OCEAN SEABED (to the 50th anniversary of the Laboratory of Engineering Geology of the World Ocean Seabed FSBI “VNIIOkeangeologiya”)

© 2019 A. V. Kondratenko¹·, S. A. Kozlov²·**, M. S. Zakharov¹·***

¹Gramberg All-Russian Research Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean (FSBI “VNIIOkeangeologiya”), Angliyskii pr., 1, St. Petersburg, 190121 Russia
*E-mail: kondr@vniio.nw.ru
***E-mail: zhmike@mail.ru
²Polar Marine Exploration Expedition Joint-Stock Co.
ul. Pobedy, 24, Lomonosov, St. Petersburg, 198412 Russia
**E-mail: kozlovSA@rusgeology.ru

This paper reviews the development of engineering geological studies at the Ocean seabed in the Russian Federation for the last 50 years in relation to the works undertaken by Engineering Geology Laboratory of the Ocean seabed – the department of FSBI “VNIIOkeangeologiya”. The potential perspectives of the Ocean mineral resources exploration and extraction attract the attention of experts to the seabed engineering geology. This includes an analysis of the geological, engineering geological and other survey results undertaken so far, as well as the future planning for the engineering geological studies in the Ocean seabed.

Keywords: World Ocean, Arctic shelf of Russia, engineering-geology research, hydrogeological research, permafrost research, ferromanganese nodules (FMC), cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts (KMC), deep-sea polymetallic sulfides (DPS), Russian exploratory regions in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869-7809201963-18

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