Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This issue of Petrology is dedicated to the memory of Oleg Alekseevich Bogatikov, an outstanding Soviet and Russian petrologist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who has long headed the editorial board of the journal, first as the deputy editor-inchief (1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007) and then as the editor-in-chief (2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018).Oleg A. Bogatikov was born on December 15, 1934, to a family of the director of the administration of the Kounrad Mine.He entered Ordzhonikidze Moscow Geological Exploration Institute in 1952, and upon graduating from it in 1957, he started to work at the Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry (IGEM), Russian Academy of Sciences, in Moscow.He worked at this institute throughout his whole life, until he passed away in 2022.At this institute he has come a long way up to the head of a laboratory and department and has developed there as a scientist and science organizer.The circle of Oleg A. Bogatikov's scientific interests was extermely wide and involved not only problems concerning certain magmatic rock associations but aslo general aspects of the evolution of magmatism in the Earth's history and its interrelations with geodynamics and processes producing ore mineralization of various type.Widely applying a broad spectrum of state-of-the-art methods of research, first and foremost, geochronologic and isotopic-geochemical techniques, we has achieved several fundamental results that remarkably contributed to progress in modern petrology.The limits of this brief paper do not allow us to list all of his scientific achievements and force us to demonstrate only those most vividly illustrating Oleg A. Bogatikov's scientific interests and avenues of his research.In the 1970s, his principal interest was attracted to anorthosites.Studies in this field led him to distinguished seven anorthosite provinces in the Soviet Union: Kola, Baltic, Ural, Ukrainian, Valga-Ural, Anabar, and Okhotsk.The materials collected at that time and the results yielded by the studies provided a basis for his fundametal monograph Anorthosites of the USSR (1974) and his doctorate dissertation (in geology and mineralogy, defended in 1975).He was one of the researchers who formulated and developed the hypothesis of the Earth's primary mafic crust and to obtain world's oldest (as of that time) isotope ages of mafic rocks: approximately 4.0 Ga.He also studied island-arc magmatism and demonstrated that subducted sedi-
Source: Petrology
Author: Editorial Board
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
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