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Inna Safonova is affiliated with Novosibirsk State University in the Russian Federation. Their research activity spans primarily the Earth and Planetary Sciences with a strong focus on Geophysics, Geology, and Geochemistry and Petrology. Additionally, they have contributed to research in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach.

Their scientific work concentrates on a range of specialized topics including geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, geological studies and exploration, geological and geophysical studies, and geochemistry and elemental analysis.

Among recent significant publications are:

  • "Geochemical characterization of ophiolites in the Alpine-Himalayan Orogenic Belt: Magmatically and tectonically diverse evolution of the Mesozoic Neotethyan oceanic crust" (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • "Traces of intra-oceanic arcs recorded in sandstones of eastern Kazakhstan: implications from U-Pb detrital zircon ages, geochemistry, and Nd-Hf isotopes" (2021, International Journal of Earth Sciences)
  • "Adakite-like granitoids of Songkultau: A relic of juvenile Cambrian arc in Kyrgyz Tien Shan" (2020, Geoscience Frontiers)
  • "Unique Cu-rich sulphide ores of the Southern-2 orebody in the Talnakh Intrusion, Noril'sk area (Russia): Geochemistry, mineralogy and conditions of crystallization" (2020, Ore Geology Reviews)
  • "Survived and disappeared intra-oceanic arcs of the Paleo-Asian Ocean: evidence from Kazakhstan" (2022, National Science Review)

Inna Safonova frequently publishes in several scientific journals. The most common publication venues include:

  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Geoscience Frontiers
  • Lithos
  • Ore Geology Reviews
  • LITHOSPHERE (Russia)

The scientist collaborates extensively with coauthors including Alina Perfilova, P. D. Kotler, Ilya Savinskiy, A. V. Gurova, and O.T. Obut. These collaborations suggest active engagement in multidisciplinary research networks.

Best Publications

  • The timing and extent of the eruption of the Siberian Traps large igneous province: Implications for the end-Permian environmental crisis

    Marc K. Reichow;M.S. Pringle;A.I. Al'Mukhamedov;M.B. Allen

  • Accretionary complexes in the Asia-Pacific region: Tracing archives of ocean plate stratigraphy and tracking mantle plumes

    I.Yu. Safonova;M. Santosh;M. Santosh

  • Recognition of ocean plate stratigraphy in accretionary orogens through Earth history: A record of 3.8billion years of sea floor spreading, subduction, and accretion

    T.M. Kusky;B.F. Windley;I. Safonova;K. Wakita

  • Late Paleozoic faults of the Altai region, Central Asia: tectonic pattern and model of formation

    M.M. Buslov;T. Watanabe;Y. Fujiwara;K. Iwata

  • A New Concept of Continental Construction in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    Inna Safonova;Reimar Seltmann;Alfred Kroner;Dmitry Gladkochub

  • Geochemistry and U–Pb detrital zircon dating of Paleozoic graywackes in East Junggar, NW China: Insights into subduction–accretion processes in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    Xiaoping Long;Chao Yuan;Min Sun;Inna Safonova

  • Pacific superplume-related oceanic basalts hosted by accretionary complexes of Central Asia, Russian Far East and Japan

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  • Juvenile versus recycled crust in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Implications from ocean plate stratigraphy, blueschist belts and intra-oceanic arcs

    Inna Safonova;Inna Safonova

  • Intra-oceanic arcs of the Paleo-Asian Ocean

    Inna Safonova;Inna Safonova;Alexey Kotlyarov;Sergey Krivonogov;Sergey Krivonogov;Wenjiao Xiao

  • A new concept of continental construction in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (compared to actualistic examples from the Western Pacific)

    I Safonova;E Seltmann;A Kröner;D Gladkochub

  • Intraplate magmatism and oceanic plate stratigraphy of the Paleo-Asian and Paleo-Pacific Oceans from 600 to 140 Ma

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  • Fragments of Vendian-Early Carboniferous Oceanic Crust of the Paleo-Asian Ocean in Foldbelts of the Altai-Sayan Region of Central Asia: Geochemistry, Biostratigraphy and Structural Setting

    I.Yu. Safonova;M.M. Buslov;K. Iwata;D.A. Kokh

  • Middle Paleozoic mafic magmatism and ocean plate stratigraphy of the South Tianshan, Kyrgyzstan

    I. Safonova;I. Safonova;G. Biske;R.L. Romer;R. Seltmann

  • LA ICP MS U–Pb ages of detrital zircons from Russia largest rivers: Implications for major granitoid events in Eurasia and global episodes of supercontinent formation

    Inna Safonova;Shige Maruyama;Takafumi Hirata;Yoshiaki Kon

  • Recognizing OIB and MORB in accretionary complexes: A new approach based on ocean plate stratigraphy, petrology and geochemistry

    I. Safonova;I. Safonova;S. Maruyama;S. Kojima;T. Komiya

  • Late Paleozoic oceanic basalts hosted by the Char suture-shear zone, East Kazakhstan: Geological position, geochemistry, petrogenesis and tectonic setting

    I.Yu. Safonova;V.A. Simonov;E.V. Kurganskaya;O.T. Obut

  • Mud volcano origin of the Mottled Zone, South Levant

    Igor Novikov;Yevgeny Vapnik;Inna Safonova

  • Geometry, kinematics and tectonic models of the Kazakhstan Orocline, Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    Pengfei Li;Pengfei Li;Min Sun;Gideon Rosenbaum;Chao Yuan

  • Geochemical characterization of ophiolites in the Alpine-Himalayan Orogenic Belt: Magmatically and tectonically diverse evolution of the Mesozoic Neotethyan oceanic crust

    Harald Furnes;Yildirim Dilek;Guochun Zhao;Inna Safonova

  • Neoproterozoic basalts of the Paleo-Asian Ocean (Kurai accretionary zone, Gorny Altai, Russia): geochemistry, petrogenesis, and geodynamics

    I.Yu. Safonova;V.A. Simonov;M.M. Buslov;T. Ota

  • Ophiolites of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Geochemical and petrological characterization and tectonic settings

    Harald Furnes;Inna Safonova

  • Geochemical diversity in oceanic basalts hosted by the Zasur'ya accretionary complex, NW Russian Altai, Central Asia: Implications from trace elements and Nd isotopes

    I.Yu. Safonova;N.V. Sennikov;T. Komiya;Y.V. Bychkova

  • Geochemistry, petrogenesis and geodynamic origin of basalts from the Katun' accretionary complex of Gorny Altai (southwestern Siberia)

    I.Yu. Safonova;M.M. Buslov;V.A. Simonov;A.E. Izokh

  • The Russian-Kazakh Altai orogen: An overview and main debatable issues

    Inna Safonova

Frequent Co-Authors

Min Sun
Min Sun University of Hong Kong
Reimar Seltmann
Reimar Seltmann Natural History Museum
Wenjiao Xiao
Wenjiao Xiao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shigenori Maruyama
Shigenori Maruyama Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tsuyoshi Komiya
Tsuyoshi Komiya University of Tokyo
Chao Yuan
Chao Yuan Chinese Academy of Sciences
M. Santosh
M. Santosh China University of Geosciences
Tatsuki Tsujimori
Tatsuki Tsujimori Tohoku University
Konstantin D. Litasov
Konstantin D. Litasov Institute for High Pressure Physics
Yunpeng Dong
Yunpeng Dong Northwest University

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