Baikal-GVD

We present the status of the Gigaton Volume Detector in Lake Baikal (Baikal-GVD) designed for the detection of high energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin. The telescope consists of functionally independent clusters, sub-arrays of optical modules (OMs), which are connected to shore by individual electro-optical cables. During 2015 the GVD demonstration cluster, comprising 192 OMs, has been successfully operated in Lake Baikal. In 2016 this array was upgraded to baseline configuration of GVD cluster with 288 OMs arranged on eight vertical strings. Thus the instrumented water volume has been increased up to about 5.9 Mtons. The array was commissioned in early April 2016 and takes data since then. We describe the configuration and design of the 2016 array. Preliminary results obtained with data recorded in 2015 are also discussed

Squeezed diapirs of the Chernyshev Swell (the Timan Pechora Basin): integrated study and petroleum habitat

A multidisciplinary study including 2D and 3D seismic surveying, magnetotelluric, gravimetric, and magnetometric measurements was conducted to unravel the geological structure of the Chernyshev Swell's and the adjacent areas of the Kosyu-Rogov Foredeep Basin. Integrated interpretation of these data and vintage information allowed the introduction of a new concept of this areas' structural development. It suggests that the structural evolution was largely influenced by the diapirism of the Upper Ordovician salt. The salt started to move towards the Chernyshev Swell from the Kosyu-Rogov Foredeep Basin with the development of diapiric walls as early as the Silurian. The salt walls underwent compression during the Uralian collisional folding from the second half of the Artinskian age. It resulted in the squeezing of the diapirs and salt's extrusion to the surface, followed by extensive thrusting. The salt-related deformations continued throughout the Mesozoic and Cenozoic activated by the intraplate stresses. The study area's structural evolution created favourable conditions for the development of a large oil and gas trap in the 3-way structural closure juxtaposed against the thrust zone. It includes regionally productive suprasalt Silu-rian-Permian deposits sealed updip by the allochthonous salt. © 2021, VNIGNI-2 OOO. All rights reserved