TO THE 90th ANNIVERSARY OF IVAR MURDMAA

  • E. V. Ivanova Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
  • O. V. Levchenko Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
  • E. A. Ovsepyan Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
  • D. G. Borisov Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
  • T. F. Zinger Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
DOI 10.29006/1564-2291.JOR-2021.49(4).7
Keywords Sedimentosphere, facies, oceanic sedimentation, edaphogenous sediments, contourites, ferromanganese nodules, deep-sea drilling

Abstract

On August 6, 2021, the chief researcher of the IO RAS, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Professor Ivar Oskarovich Murdmaa turned 90 years old. The main focus of I.O. Murdmaa is the study of bottom sediments of seas and oceans, their lithology, mineralogy, deposition processes, facies and formations, the theory of oceanic sedimentogenesis. He first distinguished marine volcanoterrigenous sediments and described the facies variability of modern sediments of island arcs. Ivar Murdmaa is known for his studies in mineralogy of oceanic sediments, processes of pelagic sedimentogenesis and associated iron-manganese nodules formation. Studying sediment formation in rift zones of mid-ocean ridges, he identified a new genetic type of sediments named edaphogeonus sediments, elaborated mineralogical criteria for their recognition and formation processes. In recent years I.O. Murdmaa is actively developing the theoretical concept of "sedimentosphere", paying special attention to a new direction – the study of the erosion-accumulative activity of bottom currents and the formation of contourites.

References

Selected publications of i.o. Murdmaa


  1. Alekseeva, T.N., I.O. Murdmaa, E.V. Ivanova, E.A. Ovsepyan, T.G. Kuz`mina, and E.A. Seitkalieva, 2015: Sedimentation in the submarine Shirshov Ridge area (Bering Sea) during the last 180-185 ka (Penultimate Glaciation – Holocene). Lithology and Mineral Resources, 50(5), 341–360, (in Russian with English Translation).

  2. Atlas of Antarctica [Maps]: In 2 volumes. 1966–1969. Moscow, Ch. ex. geodesy and cartography; Leningrad, Hydrometeorological. publishing house.

  3. Benson, W.E., R.E. Sheridan, L. Pastouret, P. Enos, T. Freeman, I.O. Murdmaa, P. Worstell, F. Gradstein, R.R. Schmidt, F.M. Weaver, and D.H. Stuermer, 1978: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, 44, Washington (U.S. Government Printing Office).

  4. Bezrukov, P.L., I.O. Murdmaa, H.M. Saidova, and Z.A. Filatova, 1958: Ob osadkah i donnoj faune severnoj chasti Vostochno-Kitajskogo moray. Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica, 3b.

  5. Bezrukov, P.L., I.O. Murdmaa, et al., 1975: Karta osadkov Tihogo okeana. M-b 1:40 mln. In: Vol. 1: Tihij okean. Atlas okeanov.

  6. Bezrukova, E.M., A.P. Lisicyn, and I.O. Murdmaa, 1983: Pantelejmon Leonidovich Bezrukov. Moscow, Nauka, 192 p.

  7. Borisov, D.G. and I.O. Murdmaa, 2018: Seismic stratigraphy of the Upper Quaternary deposits on the northeastern slope of the Ceará Rise (Central Atlantic). Russian Geology and Geophysics, 59(3), 268–275.

  8. Borisov, D.G., I.O. Murdmaa, E.V. Ivanova, A.G. Roslyakov, and R.A. Anan'yev, 2013: Erosion – Accumulative Activity of the Bottom Currents on the Continental Rise of Brazil. Doklady Earth Sciences, 452, 979–982.

  9. Borisov, D.G., I.O. Murdmaa, E.V. Ivanova, O.V. Levchenko, V.V. Yutsis, T.N. Frantseva, 2013: Contourite systems in the region of the southern São Paulo Plateau escarpment, South Atlantic. Oceanology, 53, 460–471.

  10. Borisov, D.G., I.O. Murdmaa, E.V. Ivanova, and E.V. Dorokhova, 2019: Late Quaternary lateral sedimentation in the Sao Tome Seamount area of the western South Atlantic. Russ. J. Earth. Sci., 19, ES6014, https://doi.org/10.2205/2019ES000689.

  11. Duplessy, J.C., E.V. Ivanova, I.O. Murdmaa, M. Paterne, and L. Labeyrie, 2001: Holocene paleoceanography of the Northern Barents Sea and variations of the northward heat transport by the Atlantic Ocean. Boreas, 30(1), 2–16.

  12. Duplessy, J.C., E. Cortijo, E. Ivanova, T. Khusid, L. Labeyrie, M. Levitan, I. Murdmaa, and M. Paterne, 2005: Paleoceanography of the Barents Sea during the Holocene. Paleoceanography, 20, PA4004.

  13. Eberli, G.P. and C. Betzler, 2019: Characteristics of modern carbonate contourite drifts. Sedimentology, 66, 1163–1191.

  14. Esin, N.V., I.O. Murdmaa, N.I. Esin, and Y.D. Evsyukov, 2018: Dynamics of slow suspension flows on the Black Sea abyssal plain. Quaternary International, 465(A), 20, 54–62.

  15. Flanders Marine Institute, Renard Centre of Marine Geology, University of Gent, 2019. Global contourite distribution database, version 3. https://doi.org/10.14284/346.

  16. Ivanova, E.V. and I.O. Murdmaa, 2021: Poslelednikovaya paleookeanologiya Barenceva moray. In: Sistema Barenceva moray, Moscow, GEOS, 109–126.

  17. Ivanova, E.V., I.O. Murdmaa, E.M. Emelyanov, E.A. Seitkalieva, E.P. Radionova, G.N. Alekhina, and S.M. Sloistov, 2016: Postglacial paleoceanographic environments in the Barents and Baltic Seas. Oceanology, 56(1), 118–130.

  18. Ivanova, E.V., I.O. Murdmaa, J.-C. Duplessy, and M. Paterne, 2002: Late Weichselian to Ho­locene Paleoenvironments of the Barents Sea. Global and Planetary Change, 34(3–4), 69–78.

  19. Ivanova, E.V., I.O. Murdmaa, A.L. Chepalyga, T.M. Cronin, I.V. Pasechnik, O.V. Levchenko, S.S. Howe, A.V. Manushkina, and E. Platonova, 2007: Holocene sea-level oscillations and environmental changes on the Eastern Black Sea shelf. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 246, 228–259.

  20. Ivanova, E.V., I.O. Murdmaa., M.S. Karpuk, E.I. Schornikov, F. Marret, T.M. Cronin, I.V. Buynevich, and E.A. Platonova, 2012: Paleoenvironmental changes on the northeastern and southwestern Black Sea shelves during the Holocene. Quaternary International, 261, 91–104.

  21. Ivanova, E., F. Marret, M. Zenina, I. Murdmaa, A. Chepalyga, L. Bradley, E. Schornikov, O. Levchenko, and M. Zyryanova, 2015: The Holocene Black Sea reconnection to the Mediterranean Sea: New insights from the northeastern Caucasian shelf. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 427, 41–61.

  22. Ivanova, E., I. Murdmaa, D. Borisov, O. Dmitrienko, O. Levchenko, E. Emelyanov, 2016: Late Pliocene–Pleistocene stratigraphy and history of formation of the Ioffe calcareous contourite drift, Western South Atlantic. Marine Geology, 372, 17–30.

  23. Ivanova, E., I. Murdmaa, A. De Vernal, B. Risebrobakken, A. Peyve, C. Brice, E. Seitkalieva, and S. Pisarev, 2019: Postglacial paleoceanography and paleoenvironments in the northwestern Barents Sea. Quaternary Research, 2, 1–20.

  24. Ivanova, E., D. Borisov, O. Dmitrenko, and I. Murdmaa, 2020: Hiatuses in the late Pliocene–Pleistocene stratigraphy of the Ioffe calcareous contourite drift, western South Atlantic. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 111, 624–637.

  25. Ivanova, E.V., D.G. Borisov, and I.O. Murdmaa, 2021: Hiatuses and core correlations. The Ioffe Drift. Springer, 145–160.

  26. Langseth, M., H. Okada, and C.G. Adelseck, et al., 1980: (including Murdmaa I.) Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, 56, 57. Washington (U.S. Govt. Printing Office).

  27. Levchenko, O.V., I.O. Murdmaa, E.V. Ivanova, A.D. Mutovkin, E.V. Blinova, T.A. Demidova, Yu.G. Marinova, A.A. Peyve, V.A. Putans, S.G. Skolotnev, and P. Huembs, 2012: New data on Quaternary sediments of the Atlantic Ocean derived from seismic facies analysis. Doklady Earth Sciences, 447(1), 1259–1262.

  28. Levchenko, O.V., I.O. Murdmaa, E.V. Ivanova, A.D. Mutovkin, E.V. Blinova, D.G. Borisov, S.A. Dremuchev, Y.G. Marinova, S.M. Isachenko, L.V. Lapidus, N.P. Konstantinova, A.V. Firstova, T.N. Frantseva, and V.V. Yutsis, 2014: New result of the seismic facies analysis of the Quaternary deposits in the western Atlantic. Doklady Earth Sciences, 458(2), 1256–1260.

  29. Lisicyn, A.P., 1974: Osadkoobrazovanie v okeanah. Moscow, Nauka, 438 p.

  30. Marret, F., L.R. Bradley, P.E. Tarasov, E.V. Ivanova, M.A. Zenina, and I.O. Murdmaa, 2019: The Holocene history of the NE Black Sea and surrounding areas: An integrated record of marine and terrestrial palaeoenvironmental change. The Holocene, 1, 1–14.

  31. Murdmaa, I., 1962: Sealpool kaljukitse pȍȍrijoont. Eesti riiklik kirjastus. Tallinn, 243 p.

  32. Murdmaa, I., L. Polyak, E. Ivanova, N. Khromova, 2004: Paleoenvironments in Russkaya Gavan' Fjord (NW Novaya Zemlya, Barents Sea) during the last millennium. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclim., Palaeoecol., 209, 141–154.

  33. Murdmaa, I.O., E.V. Ivanova, J.C. Duplessy, M.A. Levitan, T.A. Khusid, T.N. Alekseeva, M.V. Bourtman, M.A. Belousov, and V.V. Serova, 2006: Facies System of the Central and Eastern Barents Sea since the Last Glaciation to Recent. Mar. Geology., 230(3–4), 273–303.

  34. Murdmaa, I.O., D.G. Borisov, T.A. Demidova, E.V. Ivanova, O.V. Levchenko, Y.G. Marinova, A.D. Mutovkin, V.A. Putans, Peter Humbs, S.G. Skolotnev, and A.A. Peyve, 2012: Very High Resolution Seismic Profiling at the Brazil Margin. EOS, 93(25), 233–234.

  35. Murdmaa, I.O., D.G. Borisov, E.V. Ivanova, O.V. Levchenko, O.B. Dmitrenko, and E.M. Emelyanov, 2014: The Ioffe calcareous contourite drift, Western South Atlantic. In: Van Rooij, D., Rüggeberg, A. (Eds.), Book of Abstracts. 2nd Deep-Water Circulation Congress: The Contourite Log-book. Ghent, Belgium, 10–12 September 2014. VLIZ Special Publication 69. Ghent University, Department of Geology and Soil Science – Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee – Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Oostende, Belgium, 75–76.

  36. Murdmaa, I. and E. Ivanova, 2017: Deglaciation of the Late Weichselian Barents Sea ice sheet. In: Deglaciation Processes, Causes and Consequences. Hauppauge, N.Y. USA: Terra Nova, 2017, 141–171.

  37. Murdmaa, I., D. Borisov, E. Dorokhova, and O. Dara, 2021a: Lithology. In: The Ioffe Drift. Murdmaa I. and Ivanova E. (eds). Springer Geology, 53–97.

  38. Murdmaa, I., E. Ivanova, and D. Borisov, 2021b: History of the Ioffe Drift. In: The Ioffe Drift. Murdmaa I. and Ivanova E. (eds). Springer Geology, 161–182.

  39. Murdmaa, I.O., 1976: Edafogennye oblomochnye otlozheniya sovremennogo okeana. Doklady sovetskih geologov k XXV sessii MGK. Paleontologiya i morskaya geologiya. Moscow, Nauka, 156–165.

  40. Murdmaa, I.O., 1979: Osadki i osadochnye porody okeanov. Okeanskie facii. In: Osadkoobrazo­vanie i magmatizm okeana. P.L. Bezrukov (ed.). In: Geologiya okeana. Okeanologiya. Moscow, Nauka, 269–306.

  41. Murdmaa, I.O., 1987: Facii okeanov. Moscow, Nauka, 303 p.

  42. Murdmaa, I.O. and N.S. Skornyakova, 1968: Litologo-facial'nye tipy glubokovodnyh pelagicheskih (krasnyh) glin Tihogo oceana. Litologiya i poleznye iskopaemye, 6, 17–37.

  43. Murdmaa, I.O. and T.V. Rozanova, 1979: Edafogennye mineraly (Gl. IV.4). In: Osadkoobrazovanie i magmatizm okeana. P.L. Bezrukov (ed.). In: Geologiya okeana. Okeanologiya, Moscow, Nauka, 210–214.

  44. Murdmaa, I.O. and E.V. Ivanova, 1999: Poslelednikovaya istoriya osadkonakopleniya v shel'fovyh vpadinah Barenceva moray. Litologiya i poleznye iskopaemye, 6, 576–595.

  45. Murdmaa, I.O., P.L. Bezrukov, and Yu.A. Bogdanov, 1970: Osadkoobrazovanie v Kurilo-Kamchatskom zhelobe. Fauna Kurilo-Kamchatskogo zheloba. Trudy Instituta okeanologii AN SSSR, 96, 58–71.

  46. Murdmaa, I.O. et al., 1979: Geologicheskie formacii severo-zapadnoj chasti Atlanticheskogo okeana. Moscow, Nauka, 207 p.

  47. Murdmaa, I.O., E.V. Ivanova, L.R. Merklin, L.V. Polyak, A.A. Vetrov, G.A. Korneeva, L.I. Lobkovskij, and N.V. Hromova, 2003a: Malyj lednikovyj period v Russkoj Gavani (Severnyj ostrov Novoj Zemli). Aktual'nye problemy okeanologii, Moscow, Nauka, 275–297.

  48. Murdmaa, I.O., E.V. Ivanova, O.V. Levchenko, L.R. Merklin, A.L. Chepalyga, L.I. Lobkovskij, and E.A. Artem'eva, 2003b: Poslelednikovye sobytiya na severo-vostochnom shel'fe CHernogo morya. Aktual'nye problemy okeanologii, Moscow, Nauka, 299–316.

  49. Murdmaa, I.O., G.Kh. Kazarina, L. Beaufort, E.V. Ivanova, E.M. Emelyanov, V.A. Kravtsov, G.N. Alekhina, and V.E. Vasileva, 2010: Upper Quaternary laminated sapropelic sediments from the continental slope pf Baja California. Lithology and Mineral Resources, 45(2), 154–171.

  50. Murdmaa, I.O., O.V. Levchenko, and Yu.G. Marinova, 2012: Quaternary seismic facies of the Atlantic continental rise. Lithology and Mineral Resources, 47(5), 379–400.

  51. Murdmaa, I.O., E.A. Seitkalieva, O.M. Dara, E.V. Dorokhova, and N.V. Simagin, 2018a: Glauconite sand from the terrace of the Patagonian continental slope, Southwestern Atlantic. Lithology and Mineral Resources. 53(6), 455–459.

  52. Murdmaa, I.O., A.G. Roslyakov, and D.G. Borisov, 2018b: Erozionno-akkumulyativnye processy v severnom sektore konturitovoj sistemy kontinental'nogo sklona Patagonii. Okeanologicheskie issledovaniya, 46(3), 193–213.

  53. Murdmaa, I.O., E.V. Dorokhova, E.A. Ovsepyan, O.M. Dara, and D. Nürnberg, 2019: Terrigenous sedimentation on the submarine Shirshov Ridge (Bering Sea) during the last deglaciation. Lithology and Mineral Resources, 53(2), 79–82.

  54. Murdmaa, I.O., E.V. Ivanova, G.H. Kazarina, N.V. Simagin, A.G. Roslyakov, D.G. Borisov, and N.V. Nemchenko, 2020: Sredne-verhnechetvertichnye otlozheniya severnogo sektora konturitovoj sistemy kontinental'nogo sklona Patagonii (YUgo-Zapadnaya Atlantika). Okeanologicheskie issledovaniya, 48(1), 93–120.

  55. Novikov, G.V., I.O. Murdmaa, E.V. Ivanova, G.I. Sychkova, T.N. Alekseeva, T.G. Kuz'mina, O.M. Dara, and M.A. Belousov, 2001: Novye dannye o sostave i processah formirovaniya poslelednikovyh otlozhenij Central'noj Barencevomorskoj vpadiny. Opyt sistemnyh okeanologicheskih issledovanij v Arktike, Moscow, Nauchnyj mir, 778–807.

  56. Pavlidis, Yu.A., I.O. Murdmaa, E.V. Ivanova, A.V. Artem'ev, and M.A. Belousov, 2001: Soedinyalis' li 18 tysyach let nazad lednikovye pokrovy Novoj Zemli i Zemli Franca-Iosifa? Opyt sistemnyh okeanologicheskih issledovanij v Arktike, Moscow, Nauchnyj mir, 618–632.

  57. Polyak, L., I. Murdmaa, and E. Ivanova, 2004: A high-resolution, 800-year glaciomarine record from Russkaya Gavan', a Novaya Zemlya fjord, eastern Barents Sea. The Holocene, 14(4), 638–644.

  58. Sager, W., E. Winterer, J.V. Firth, et al., 1993: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial reports, 143: College Station, TX.

  59. Simagin, N.V., I.O. Murdmaa, E.A. Seitkalieva, D.G. Borisov, E.V. Dorokhova, E.M. Emelyanov, and O.V. Levchenko, 2017: Sedimentary infill in the equatorial Mid-Oceanic Canyon, Atlantic Ocean. Lithology and Mineral Resources, 52(6), 427–434.

  60. Skornyakova, N.S., 1970: Rasseyannye zhelezo i marganec v osadkah Tihogo okeana. Osadkoobrazovanie v Tihom okeane, Moscow, Nauka, 2, 159–202.

  61. Tucholke, B.E., P.R. Vogt, I.O. Murdmaa, P. Rothe, R.L. Houghton, J.S. Galehouse, A. Kaneps, C.L. McNulty, H. Okada, J.W. Kendrick, K.R. Demars, and I.N. McCave, 1979: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, 43: Washington (U.S. Government Printing Office).

  62. Zenina, M., E. Ivanova, L. Bradley, E. Schornikov, I. Murdmaa, and F. Marret, 2017: Origin, potential migration pathways and palaeoenvironmental significance of the Holocene ostracods from the north-eastern Black Sea shelf. Quaternary Research, 87(1), 49–65.

  63. Zharkov, M.A., I.O. Murdmaa, and N.I. Filatova, 1995: Paleogeografiya serediny melovogo perioda. Stratigrafiya. Geologicheskaya korrelyaciya, 3(3), 15–41.

  64. Zharkov, M.A., I.O. Murdmaa, and N.I. Filatova, 1998a: Paleogeografiya berrias-barremskogo vekov rannego mela. Stratigrafiya. Geologicheskaya korrelyaciya, 6(1), 49–72.

  65. Zharkov, M.A., I.O. Murdmaa, and N.I. Filatova, 1998b: Paleogeografiya kon'yak-maastrihtskogo vremeni pozdnego mela. Stratigrafiya. Geologicheskaya korrelyaciya, 6(3), 3–16.
Published
2021-12-30
Issue
Vol 49 No 4 (2021): Journal of Oceanological Research
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