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GEONOOSPHERE
When working in a foreign country
we must see things as they are ... not as we are.
Keeping one’s mind open will help to move projects along.
by Lance Miller et al. at MMAJ Forum: Mineral Potential of Asia
Cordilleran Round-Up, January 2002
&caption=Miss Avnavlu 1977 - Anna Ananchenko<BR>senior geochemist Ananchenko A.D., PhD<BR><BR>Bedrock Geological Mapping and<BR>Geochemical Sampling Project<BR>at 1 : 50 000 scale<BR>in Koryakia (Penzhina River Basin)<BR>carried out by the State Research and<BR>Production Enterprise Aerogeologiya<BR>Northern Kamchatka, Far East of Russia<BR>picture from Anna Ananchenko† archives "Ananchenko A.D., PhD, senior geochemist (friendly jest)")
senior geochemist Ananchenko A.D., PhD
Bedrock Geological Mapping and
Geochemical Sampling Project
at 1 : 50 000 scale
in Koryakia (Penzhina River Basin)
carried out by the State Research and
Production Enterprise Aerogeologiya
Northern Kamchatka, Far East of Russia
picture from Anna Ananchenko† archives
WELCOME TO G-to-G! 
Hello everyone! We are very glad, that you showing an interest in our web-site G-to-G. Welcome to our non-profit thematic website "Geologist to Geologist" (G-to-G).
You will find here informal words concerning Russian speaking geological society. We hope you will wonder about recently and formerly photographs, images and pictures of Russian geology and geologists.
Some of the questions I was asked most often: Why Russian hide the geological information when they can embrace it and make it an integral part of successful business?
Why your English is not so well? Why do you, guys, use the helicopter MI-8 in field ... big and fast but cannot land easily and expensive?
Why people in Russia picked up interesting licenses but didn't do their homework about looking at them before picking them up?
Why foreign investors have in Russia very regional data by 1 : 200 000 scale maps while in the late 80s - early 90s geological survey on scale 1 : 50 000 covered 26.5% of the territory? How many times you have to turn the key to get the door opened or locked with Russian dusty secrets?
Why aren't you so rich, if you are so smart, then? Why there is also a shortage of good, practical exploration geologists in my country? Why all we are so worry about the secrecy while Google Earth is not the only one? Why Russain speaking geologists do not care about the metal content in ores?
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Map of distribution of the Mineral Resources in the USSR |
It is easily now - just ask us "why" ... We are called a democracy now , for the administration is in the hands of the "many" and not of the "few" ... A democracy for the simple people ... And the post-Soviet mineral resources for a democracy ... The old geology of new Russia for grandchilds of old commissars and new-old strangers ... You, in fact, were wanted it?
Europe, apparently, does not understand: - a dead Russia, it is a green corridor for a variety of gifts from the former southern republics of the former USSR ...
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You, in fact, were wanted it? |
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And how the ordinary post-Soviet man can withstand to the such sort of coalition? |
The history of exploration by citizens or subjects of the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire, the Tsardom of Russia and other Russian predecessor states forms a significant part of the history of Russia as well as the history of the world.
At 17,075,400 square kilometres (6,592,800 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth’s land mass.
In the times of the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire the country's share in the world's land mass reached 1/6. Most of these territories were first discovered by Russian explorers (if indigenous peoples of inhabited territories are not counted).
Contiguous exploration in Eurasia and the building of overseas colonies in Russian America were some of the primary factors in Russian territorial expansion.
Apart from their discoveries in Siberia, Alaska, Central Asia and the Extreme North, Russian explorers have made significant contributions to the exploration of the Arctic and Antarctic, the Pacific islands, as well as deep-Earth's crust, deep-sea, and space exploration.
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future map of Amasia, Amasia, Amasia ... |
What could you expect from G-to-G? We want to open slightly some of above "secrets" regarding the Soviet "geological boundaries" and give an answer to your "why". Why do the post-Soviet geologists look and act sometimes soo much different ...
Many of post-Soviet Geologists, who have mastered geological mapping, exploration and mining of rough terrains and far far away corners of the great USSR, died.
We would like to let you know a little bit more about the life and work of Soviet Geologists, whose names you will, probably, never find in scientific papers, who had never opportunity to share their experience with English speaking geological society.
remain as to how the Verkhoyansk belt formed.
... They survived on tshonka (canned meat) and
grishka (buckwheat); their only fresh food was the
wild chives and rhubarb they gathered.
by Catherine Zandonella
for Stanford News Service, 2000
, 1970–1977<BR>There were three GSE editions. The first edition of 65 volumes (65,000 entries,<BR>plus a supplementary volume about the Soviet Union) was published during<BR>1926–1947. The second edition of 50 volumes (100,000 entries, plus a supplementary<BR>volume) was published in 1950–1958. The third edition of 1970–1977 contains 30<BR>volumes (100,000 entries, plus an index volume issued in 1981. The GSE contents<BR>articles about the Soviet Union and all countries of the world "Geological Map of the USSR - picture from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1970–1977") |
Geological Map of the USSR |
, 1971 "Tectonic Map of North America") |
Tectonic Map of North America |
We would like to share some of the "secrets" of the Russian geological society and to answer at the numerous "why?". Why we are afraid to miss the geological maps, why we are afraid to do something wrong, why we are almost in a stress? The answer may be obtain here.
The historical content of the G-to-G is designed to impart to you the "why" behind these Russian practices. This website provides informal background to the Russian mining, oil and gas laws and regulations in future. It is research work where we will bring a comprehensive historical analysis of the legal concepts and principles for our extract industry - just to clarify answer to your "why".
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, 2008
We would like "to open the window" on our history of the mineral, oil and gas deposits exploring and mining, as well as on our history of geological mapping with prospecting and geophysical surveys.
Ditto about the North American geological mapping system. Only part of Russian-English speaking geologists had a chance to travel outside of USSR in XX. Sudden transformation of 90s nothing changed in life of simple geologists, except some of them who has contract with foreign company.
We have the same questions to you guys and curious about the North-American style of mapping, to stake out a claim and land titles system, surface and mineral rights. What exactly do you mean when you say "team work" and "crew"? Where and how do you keep your geological information - maps, core, samples, and thinsections? Who and where can buy it?
How long do your geologists spend away in fields? How big are usually your field teams?
We also do have several academic questions: Why do you so like the Plate Tectonic Theory but sometimes do not like regional faults and do not use the satellite photographs while mapping?
There are huge questions to English speaking colleagues. People, including geologists, are stay the same here, there, and everywhere ... All of us have questions about the same issues and situations.
Due to various reasons, many Russian specialists are not able to get acquainted with foreign geological literature, to attend regular thematic overseas workshops and conferences, maintain regular contact with foreign colleagues.
We try to show the two sides of one icon which is the name - Her Majesty Geology. From the one hand, G-to-G is website intended for English speaking colleagues by Russian speaking geologists. From another hand the G-to-G created for Russian speaking geologists in order to introduce them the North-American geological practice on real field exerience.
Soviet geologists were engrossed in gold-rush by Jack London (John Griffith Chaney, 1876–1916). Russia has all of the Jack London's personages as yet and lot of tales about the same adventures on extensive prospecting and mining history. We are curious, what is changed in your practice of discovery and describe deposits since that times?
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Koryakia, Russia, 1983 | Yukon, Canada, 2008 | |
Russia also had a "gold rush" in the remote far far away areas ... Post-Soviet territory had it's own "Yukon and North West Territories": Ural, Kolyma, Kamchatka, Sahalin, Caucasus, Chukot, Crimea, Kola Peninsula, Kazakhstan, Magadan region, and etc.
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Penzhinsky district | Northwest Territories | |
We hope that this website, which is based on the information obtained through personal experience of the Russian geological societiy, will assist to your understanding of yesterday and nowaday Russia, which was destroyed by democratic style of leadership during XX century twice - once in 1917 (the first wind of democratic changes from Europe) and next in 1990 (the second wind of democratic changes from the real West. "You wanted it - you will get it"
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And so, hello Everybody! Welcome to the post-Soviet GEOsociety which has an informal climate and which is free of any official opinion. Welcome to the G-to-G virtual society!
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the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights in Yellowknife, |
We began to run the G-to-G website at the first weekend of April, 2007. The first Sunday of April is the Geologists' Day in Russia. We began our website with the Memorial Book which has an intention of collected information about all geologists who never came back from expeditions, fields, mines, trips, and traverses - from their own Yukon and Territories ...
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the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights in the Deputatsk - village of miners. |
Geologists Day - a professional holiday of geologists, hydrogeologists, engineering geologists, geophysicists and geochemists. It is traditionally celebrated on the first Sunday of April. The establishment of this holiday was initiated by a group of prominent Soviet geologists headed by academician Alexander Yanshin.
Following their initiative, the Geologists Day was established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on March 31, 1966 to commemorate the achievements of Soviet geologists after discovery of the West Siberian petroleum province.
The timing of the holiday, the first Sunday in April, was chosen because it marks the end of winter and beginning of preparation for summer field work and expeditions.
Geologists Day is traditionally celebrated in almost all geological and mining organizations of the former Soviet Union with festivities starting at the end of preceding week. With tens of thousands of geologists from the former Soviet Union working around the world, the tradition of celebrating the Geologists Day is becoming more international.
In addition to geologists, many others involved in related fields also consider this day as their professional holiday and celebrate it.
So, Welcome to the G-to-G virtual community - GEONOOSPHERE !
G-to-G GEONOOSPHERE ...
community is very good... it is a story that needs to be told.
by the best old North American Friend in 2007
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The first Sunday of April is the Geologists's Day in Russia |
THE NOOSPHERE
"The younger contemporaries of Darvin, James Dana (1813-1895) and J. Le Conte, both of great American geologists (and Dana a mineralogist and biologist as well) expounded, even prior to 1859, the empirical generalization that the evolution of living matter is processing, in a definite direction. This phenomenon was called by Dana "cephalization", and by Le Conte - the "psychozoic era. (...)
Proceeding from the notion of the geological rule of man, geologist A.P. Pavlov (1854-1929) in the last years of his life used to speak of the anthropogenic era in which we now live. (...)
The NOOSPHERE is a new geological phenomenon on our planet. In it for the first time men becomes a large-scale geological force. He can and must rebuild the province of his life by his work and thought, rebuild it radically in comparison with the past. Wider and wider creative possibilities open before him. It may be that the generation of our grandchildren will approach their blossoming." - by V.I. Vernadsky, 1945 (fragments)
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Tectonic Map of the World, VSEGEI, 1987 |
The NOOSPHERE can be seen as the "sphere of human thought" being derived from the Greek νους ("nous") meaning "mind" in the style of "atmosphere" and "biosphere". In the original theory of Vernadsky, the noosphere is the third in a succession of phases of development of the Earth, after the geosphere (inanimate matter) and the biosphere (biological life). Just as the emergence of life fundamentally transformed the geosphere, the emergence of human cognition fundamentally transforms the biosphere. In contrast to the conceptions of the Gaia theorists, or the promoters of cyberspace, Vernadsky's NOOSPHERE emerges at the point where humankind, through the mastery of nuclear processes, begins to create resources through the transmutation of elements. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tectonic map of North America. |
Lev Gumilev in "Ethnogenesis and the Biosphere": Thoughts about the noosphere. As I have already remarked several times, people's conscious, deliberate activity plays no less a role in historical processes than their emotional activity, but their character is different in principle. A disinterested striving for truth gives rise to scientific discoveries that determine the possibility of technical improvements, and so create the prerequisites for growth of the productive forces. A passion for beauty shapes the mind both of the artist and of the viewer. A thirst for justice stimulates social reorganization. In short, "human reason, which is not a form of energy but produces activity as if responding to it", (V.I. Vernadsky) becomes an impulse of the phenomenon called progress and is consequently associated with the social form of the motion of matter. The link between these two forms of the motion of matter, which are both present in every historical event, great or small, is obvious. According to V.I. Vernadsky, "the evolution of species, which leads to the creation 6f forms of fife stable in the biosphere" (V.I. Vernadsky, the Second Biochemical Principle), and consequently directional (progressive) development, is a planetary, global phenomenon.
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Tectonic map of North America, | Tectonic map of South America, | |
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Giperglobus - North and South America |
But the actions of human hands have a primordial difference from the creations of nature. They drop out of the conversion of biocoenoses in which there is a constant exchange of matter and energy that maintains the biocoenoses as systemic entities. Human creativity wrests particles of matter from nature and shackles form onto them. Stones are transformed into pyramids or a Parthenon, wool into jackets, steel into sabers and tanks. And these objects lack self-development; they can only be destroyed. Kalesnik drew attention to this difference in principle between nature and technique in the broad sense, when he also pointed out that not all man's creations possess these properties. A field of wheat, an irrigation ditch, a herd of cows, or a domestic cat remains part of the geographical environment in spite of man's influence.
, 1970–1977<BR>There were three GSE editions. The first edition of 65 volumes (65,000 entries,<BR>plus a supplementary volume about the Soviet Union) was published during<BR>1926–1947. The second edition of 50 volumes (100,000 entries, plus a supplementary<BR>volume) was published in 1950–1958. The third edition of 1970–1977 contains 30<BR>volumes (100,000 entries, plus an index volume issued in 1981. The GSE contents<BR>articles about the Soviet Union and all countries of the world "Geomorphological Map of the World - picture from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1970–1977") |
Geomorphological Map of the World |
The anthroposphere thus occupies an intermediate place between the dead technosphere and living nature. But if so, they are in opposition. And this is a convenient place to introduce Yu.K. Efremov's amendment to evaluation of the "noosphere", which he has called the 'sociosphere'. Is 'the sphere of the mind' really reasonable? For it tries to slip into itself the living processes that enrich our planet with stocks of the condensed energy concealed in soils and sedimentary rocks, in coal and oil.
, 1970–1977<BR>There were three GSE editions. The first edition of 65 volumes (65,000 entries,<BR>plus a supplementary volume about the Soviet Union) was published during<BR>1926–1947. The second edition of 50 volumes (100,000 entries, plus a supplementary<BR>volume) was published in 1950–1958. The third edition of 1970–1977 contains 30<BR>volumes (100,000 entries, plus an index volume issued in 1981. The GSE contents<BR>articles about the Soviet Union and all countries of the world "Map of Anthropogenic Sediments in the World - picture from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1970–1977") |
Map of Anthropogenic Sediments in the World |
The past fife of micro-organisms gave us the oxygen of the atmosphere and the ozone layer that saves us from lethal cosmic radiation. The plants that cover the land are a factory of photosynthesis processing fight into animate matter. Animals, our lesser brethren, regulate biocoenoses and impart order to them.
, 1970–1977<BR>There were three GSE editions. The first edition of 65 volumes (65,000 entries,<BR>plus a supplementary volume about the Soviet Union) was published during<BR>1926–1947. The second edition of 50 volumes (100,000 entries, plus a supplementary<BR>volume) was published in 1950–1958. The third edition of 1970–1977 contains 30<BR>volumes (100,000 entries, plus an index volume issued in 1981. The GSE contents<BR>articles about the Soviet Union and all countries of the world "Tectonic Map of the World - picture from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1970–1977") |
Tectonic Map of the World |
But what has the noosphere given us, even if it really exists? From the Paleolithic, numerous flint chippings and accidentally dropped scrapers and choppers; from the Neolithic -kitchen mid-dens at places of settlement. Antiquity gave us the ruins of towns, and the Middle Ages the ruins of castles. Even when ancient structures have survived to our day, like the pyramids or the Acropolis, they are always inert structures going relatively slowly to wrack and ruin. And you will hardly find a person in our time who would prefer to see heaps of refuse and concrete squares in place of forests and steppes. But technique and its products are the materialization of reason.
In short, whatever our attitude to the idea of the existence of a noosphere, the polarization of technique and life is indisputable. And here we are faced with the task of defining the relation of the drive that initiates ethnoi and the sphere of consciousness that generates culture and technique.
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The Geological Map of the World |
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Thank you, Svetlana.
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