Russian Academy of Sciences

The Institute of the Earth’s Crust

Main scientific direction
Recent endo- and exogeodynamics. Geological medium and seismic process. Resources dynamics of underground waters and geoecology.
Internal structure, paleogeodynamics, endogenic processes and fluid dynamics of the continental lithosphere.

The Institute of the Earth’s Crust originally named the Institute of Geology, East-Siberian
Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, emerged in Irkutsk in February 1949 according to USSR Council
of Ministers Decree No. 1138-r, dated February 1, 1949 and USSR Academy of Sciences Presidium Decree,
dated February 24, 1949 as a response to the foundation of the Branch. It was renamed into the
East-Siberian Geological Institute in 1957; since 1962, it had been known as the Institute of
the Earth’s Crust SB AS USSR and obtained its current name in 1992.

Long-lived connection between
southern Siberia and northern Laurentia
in the Proterozoic

Precambrian supercontinents Nuna-Columbia (1.7 to 1.3 billion years ago) and Rodinia (1.1 to 0.7 billion years ago)
have been proposed. However, the arrangements of crustal blocks within these supercontinents are poorly known.
Huge, dominantly basaltic magmatic outpourings and intrusions, covering up to millions of square kilometres,
termed Large Igneous Provinces, typically accompany (super) continent breakup, or attempted breakup and
offer an important tool for reconstructing supercontinents.

R. E. Ernst, M. A. Hamilton, U. Söderlund, J. A. Hanes, D. P. Gladkochub, A. V. Okrugin,
T. Kolotilina, A. S. Mekhonoshin, W. Bleeker, A. N. LeCheminant, K. L. Buchan, K. R. Chamberlain & A. N. Didenko
Long-lived connection between southern Siberia and northern Laurentia in the Proterozoic//
Nature Geoscience (2016). doi:10.1038/ngeo2700. Nature Publishing Group

The agreement between the Institute of
Volcanology and mineral springs AOR
China and IEC SB RAS

Chinese-Russian Wudalianchi-Baikal research Center on recent volcanism and
environment integrates geologists from the Institute of Volcano and Mineral spring,
Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences and the Institute of the Earth's Crust,
Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, other institutions of China and Russia,
and also other countries to provide cooperative study on recent volcanism and
environment in Wudalianchiand Baikal as the key areas to meet challenges of
the latest and modern geodynamics in Asia.

The Institute of the Earth’s Crust originally named the Institute of Geology, East-Siberian
Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, emerged in Irkutsk in February 1949 according to USSR Council
of Ministers Decree No. 1138-r, dated February 1, 1949 and USSR Academy of Sciences Presidium Decree,
dated February 24, 1949 as a response to the foundation of the Branch. It was renamed into the
East-Siberian Geological Institute in 1957; since 1962, it had been known as the Institute of
the Earth’s Crust SB AS USSR and obtained its current name in 1992.

Siberian Discovery Suggests
Almost All Dinosaurs Were
Feathered

Almost all dinosaurs were probably covered in feathers,
Siberian fossils of a tufted, two-legged running dinosaur
dating from roughly 160 million years ago suggest.

Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus

Godefroit P., Sinitsa S.M., Dhouailly D., Bolotsky Y.L., Sizov A.V., McNamara M.E., Benton M.J., Spagna P. A
Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur from Siberia with both feathers and scales //
Science. 2014. V. 345. № 6195. P. 451–455. doi:10.1126/science.1253351.