Laboratory of Stratigraphy and Paleontology

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Head of Laboratory until 2007
Boris Chuvashov,
corresponding member of RAS,  Professor,
Adviser of RAS

Head of Laboratory
Valery Chernykh
Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy
tel.: (343) 371-41-04, 8-912-265-21-16
e-mail: chernykh@igg.uran.ru
Laboratory staff: 13 employees, including one corresponding member of RAS, 2 doctors of science, six candidates of science, one graduate student.


Research Areas:

  • Evolutionary paleontology, general regularities of the organic world, systematic organization of superior taxa.
  • Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Jurassic, Cretaceous and Paleogene Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphy and Paleobiogeography.
  • Geology of bauxite and phosphate deposits in the Northern Urals.
  • General classification issues, classification of mineral deposits.