(Table 1) Chemical composition of volcanic rocks from the Mariisky sequence and extrusive vent rocks of the Mary Cape, Schmidt Peninsula (North Sakhalin)

Early Cretaceous volcanic rocks of the Mariisky sequence and Early Cenozoic extrusive-vent rocks of the Mary Cape are exposed at the most northwest of the Schmidt Peninsula, North Sakhalin. In chemical composition, all the rocks are subdivided into four groups. Three groups include volcanic rocks of the Mariisky sequence, which consists, from bottom to top, of calc-alkaline rocks, transitional calc-alkaline-tholeiite rocks, and incompatible element-depleted tholeiites. These rocks show subduction geochemical signatures and are considered as a fragment of the Moneron-Samarga island arc system. Trace-element modeling indicates their derivation through successive melting of a garnet-bearing mantle and garnet-free shallower mantle sources containing amphibole; pyroxene; and, possibly, spinel. The mixed subduction and intra-plate characteristics of the extrusive vent rocks of the Mary Cape attest to their formation in a transform continental margin setting.

(Table 1) Chemical composition of Middle Cenozoic magmatic rocks from the Schmidt Peninsula, North Sakhalin

Middle Cenozoic evolution of magmatism in the Schmidt Peninsula between 37 and 25 Ma began with eruptions of subalkaline and moderately alkaline andesite, latite, trachyandesite, and trachyrhyolite lavas and ended with subvolcanic intrusions of highly alkaline strongly undersaturated essexites. According to trace element data magmatism evolved from melting of a mantle source in the zone of ocean-continent plate convergence to small degree partial melting in the lithospheric mantle at the final stage. This succession is generally typical for Late Cenozoic continental-margin magmatism in the Southeast Russia. Similarity in the Middle and Late Cenozoic stages of magmatism is an evidence for their individual significance.