GEOLOGY OF REEFS - 2025. RESULTS

Abstract

On June 23–25, 2025, the All-Russian Lithological Conference with International Participation «Geology of Reefs — 2025» was held at the Institute of Geology FRC Komi SC UB RAS under the auspices of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and the Scientific Council on Lithology and Sedimentary Minerals of the Earth Sciences Department RAS.
The program enlightened the study of reefogenic deposits in three areas: lithology and geochemistry of carbonate platforms and organogenic buildups, bacterial lithogenesis, and oil and gas potential of carbonate deposits. The conference also focused on the isotopic and geochemical characteristics of reef rocks, the modern formation of marine carbonates and organogenic buildups, and the role of gas fluids in the formation of bottom-level carbonates.
The meeting was attended by representatives of more than forty scientific and industrial organizations and universities from Russia, Thailand and Kazakhstan. During practical classes of the youth school, young researchers studied samples and thin sections from the Upper Carboniferous and Lower Permian skeletal hills of the Northern and Subpolar Urals, and the structure of microbialites in the Lower Carboniferous deposits (Unya River, Northern Urals). The speakers noted the richness of the program and a high quality of the reports.