Victor A. Melezhik
professor II
Senter for geobiologi
Geobiologi
My main research interests are Precambrian depositional environments and stratigraphy of phenomena as revealed by the sedimentary, geochemical and stable isotopic records, and the effects of interaction between sedimentary, biogenic and diagenetic systems.
Palaeoenvironmental changes in Archaean-Palaeoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transitions.
Precamdrian sedimentology, and geochemistry applied to sedimentary and diagenetic processes.
C- and Sr-isotope chemostratigraphy applied to Proterozoic and Palaeozoic carbonate rocks.
Kusnetzov, A.B., Melezhik, V.A., Gorokhov, I.M., Mel'nikov, N.N., Konstantinova, G.B., Kutyavin, E.P. Turchenko, T.L. Sr isotopic composition of Paleoproterozoic 13C-rich carbonate rocks: the Tulomozero Formation, SE Fennoscandian Shield. Precambrian Res. (submitted).
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E. On the Lomagundi-Jatuli carbon isotopic event: the evidence from the Kalix Greenstone Belt, Sweden. Precambrian Res. (under revision).
Melezhik, V.A., Pokrovsky, B.G., Fallick, A.E., Kuznetsov, A.B. and Bujakaite, M.I., 2009. Constraints on 87Sr/86Sr of Late Ediacaran seawater: insight from Siberian high-Sr limestones. Journal of Geological Society, London, 166, 183-191.
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Filippov, M.M., Lepland, A., Rychanchik, D.V, Deines, J.E., Medvedev, P.V., Romashkin, A.E. and Strauss, H. 2009. Palaeoproterozoic Petroleum surface oil seeps from petrified Palaeoproterozoic petrified giant oilfield. Terra Nova, 21, 119-126.
Kusnetzov, A.B., Gorokhov, I.M., Ovchinnikova, G.V., Melezhik, V.A., Vasil'eva, I.M., Gorokhovsky, B.M., Konstantinova, G.B., Mel'nikov, N.N., 2009. Rb-Sr and U-Pb systematics of Palaeoproterozoic Kuetsjärvi Formation carbonate rocks from the Pechenga Greenstone Belt, Kola Peninsula. Stratigraphy and Geologic Correlation. (in press)
Fallick, A.E., Melezhik V. A. and Simonson, B., 2008. The ancient anoxic biosphere was not as we know it. In: Dobretsov, N., Kolchanov, N., Rozanov, A. and Zavarzin, G. (eds.), Biosphere origin and Evolution. Springer Science+Business Media, pp., 169-188.
Melezhik, V. A., Roberts, D., Fallick A. E. and Gorokhov, I. M., 2008. The Shuram-Wonoka event recorded in a high-grade metamorphic terrane: insight from the Scandinavian Caledonides. Geological Magazine, 145, 161-172.
Melezhik, V.A., Bingen, B., Fallick, A.E., Gorokhov, I.M., Kuznetsov, A.B., Sandstad, J.S., Solli, A., Bjerkgård, T., Henderson, I., Boyd, R., Jamal, D. and Moniz, A., 2008. Isotope chemostratigraphy of marbles in northeastern Mozambique: apparent depositional ages and tectonostratigraphic implications. Precambrian Res., 162, 540-558
Lahtinen, R., Garde, A.A. and Melezhik, V.A., 2008. Paleoproterozoic evolution of Fennoscandia and Greenland. Episodes, 31, 20-28.
Biske, N.S., Medvedev, P.V., Melezhik, V.A., Romashkin, A.E., Rychanchik, D.V., Filippov, M.M., 2007. Atlas of Textures and Structures of Sungite-Bearing Rocks from the Onega Synclinorium. Filippov, M.M., Melezhik, V.A. (eds), Karelian Science Centre, Petrozavodsk, Russia (in Russian), 80 pp.
Melezhik, V.A., Huhma, H., Condon, D.J., Fallick, A.E., Whitehouse, M.J., 2007. Temporal constraints on the Paleoproterozoic Lomagundi-Jatuli carbon isotopic event. Geology, 35, 655-658.
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Smith, R.A., Rosse, D.M., 2007. Spherical and columnar, septarian, 18O-depleted, calcite concretions from Middle-Upper Permian lacustrine siltstones in northern Mozambique: evidence for very early diagenesis and multiple fluids. Sedimentology, 54, 1389-1416.
Chumakov, N.M., Pokrovsky, B.G., Melezhik, V.A., 2007. Geological history of the Patom Complex, Late Precambrian, Central Siberia. Transactions of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 413(3), 379-383.
Reimann, C., Melezhik, V.A., Niskavaara, H., 2007. Low-density regional geochemical mapping of gold and palladium highlightning the exploration potential of northernmost Europe. Economic Geology, 102, 327-334.
Roberts, D., Nordgulen, Ø. and Melezhik, V.A., 2007. The Uppermost Allochthon in the Scandinavian Caledonides: from a Laurentian ancestry through Taconian orogeny to Scandian crustal growth on Baltica. In: Hatcher, R.D., Jr., Carlson, M.P., McBride, J.H. and Martínez Catalán, J.R., eds., 4-D Framework of Continental Crust: Geological Society of America Memoir 200, p. 357–377.
Ovchinnikova, G.V., Kusnetzov, A.B., Melezhik, V.A., Gorokhov, I.M., Vasil'eva, I.M., Gorokhovsky, B.M., 2006. Pb-Pb age of Jatulian carbonate rocks: the Tulomozero Formation in south-eastern Karelia. Stratigraphy and Geologic Correlation, 4, 20-33.
Melezhik, V.A., 2006. Multiple causes of Earth's earliest global glaciation. Terra Nova, 18, 130-137.
Melezhik, V.A., Kuznetsov, A.B., Fallick A.F., Smith, R.A., Gorokhov I.M., Jamal, D., Catuane, F., 2006. Depositional environments and an apparent age for the Geci meta-limestones: Constraints on the geological history of northern Mozambique. Precambrian Research, 148, 19–31.
Pokrovsky, B.G., Melezhik, V.A., Bujakaite, M.I., 2006. Carbon, oxygen, strontium, and sulfur isotopic compositions in Late Precambrian rocks of the Patom Complex, Central Siberia: Communication 1. Results, isotope stratigraphy, and dating problems. Lithology and Mineral Resources, 41, 450-474.
Pokrovsky, B.G., Melezhik, V.A., Bujakaite, M.I., 2006. Carbon, oxygen, strontium, and sulfur isotopic compositions in Late Precambrian rocks of the Patom Complex, Central Siberia: Communication 2. Nature of carbonates with ultralow and ultrahigh
d13C Values. Lithology and Mineral Resources, 41, 576-587.
Slagstad, T., Melezhik, V.A., Kirkland, C.L., Zwaan, K.B., Roberts, D., Gorokhov, I.M., Fallick, A.E., 2006. Carbonate isotope chemostratigraphy suggests revisions to the geological history of the West Finnmark Caledonides, northern Norway. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 163, 277–289.
Melezhik, V.A., Roberts, D. Fallick, A.E. Gorokhov I.M., Kuznetsov A.B., 2005. Geochemical preservation potential of high-grade calcite marble versus dolomite marble: implication for isotope chemostratigraphy' Chemical Geology, 216, 203-224.
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Rychanchik, D.V., Kuznetsov A.B., 2005. Palaeoproterozoic evaporites in Fennoscandia: implications for seawater sulphate, d13C excursions and the rise of atmospheric oxygen. Terra Nova, 17, 141-148.
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., 2005. The Palaeoproterozoic, rift-related, shallow-water, 13C-rich, lacustrine carbonates, NW Russia—Part I: Sedimentology and major element geochemistry. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 95, 393-421.
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Kuznetsov, A.B., 2005. The Palaeoproterozoic, rift-related, shallow-water, 13C-rich, lacustrine carbonates, NW Russia—Part II: global isotope signal recorded in the lacustrine dolostones. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 95, 423-444.
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Pokrovsky, B.G., 2005. Enigmatic nature of thick sedimentary carbonates depleted in 13C beyond the canonical mantle value: the challenges to our understanding of the terrestrial carbon cycle. Precambrian Research, 137, 131-165.
Wanke, A., Melezhik, V.A., 2005. Palaeoproterozoic sedimentation and stromatolite growth in an advanced intracontinental rift associated with the marine realm: a record of the Neoarchaean continent breakup? Precambrian Research, 140, 1-35.
Gandin, A., Wright, D.T., Melezhik, V.A., 2005. Vanished evaporites and carbonate formation in the Neoarchaean Kogelbeen and Gamohaan formations of the Campbellrand Subgroup, South Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 41, 1-23.
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Hanski, E. Kump, L., Lepland, A., Prave, A., Strauss, H., 2005. Emergence of the Modern Earth System during the Archean-Proterozoic Transition. GSA Today, 15, 4-11.
Melezhik, V.A., Filippov, M.M. and Romashkin, A.E., 2004. A giant Palaeoproterozoic deposit of shungite in NW Russia: genesis and practical applications. Ore Geology Review, 24, 135-154.
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E and Grillo, S.M., 2004. Subaerial exposure surfaces in a Palaeoproterozoic 13C-rich dolostone sequence from the Pechenga Greenstone Belt: palaeoenvironmental and isotopic implications for the 2330-2060 Ma global isotope excursion of 13C/12C. Precambrian Research, 133, 75-103.
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Smirnov, Yu.P., Yakovlev, Yu.N., 2003. Fractionation of carbon and oxygen isotopes in 13C-rich Palaeoproterozoic dolostones in the transition from medium-grade to high-grade greenschist facies: a case study from the Kola Superdeep Drillhole. Geological Society of London, 160, 71-82.
Mossman, D., Eigendorf, G., Tokaryk, D., Gauthier-Lafaye, F., Guckert, K. D., Melezhik V.A., Farrow, C.E.G., 2003. Testing for fullerenes in geologic materials: Oklo carbonaceous substances, Karelian shungites, Sudbury Black Tuff. Geology 31, 255–258.
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., 2003. d13C and d18O variations in primary and secondary carbonate phases: several contrasting examples from Palaeoproterozoic 13C-rich dolostones. Chemical Geology, 201, 213-228.
Melezhik, V.A., Zwaan, B.K, Motuza, G., Roberts, D., Solli, A., Fallick, A.E., Gorokhov, I.M., Kusnetzov, A.B., 2003. New insights into the geology of high-grade Caledonian marbles based on isotope chemostratigraphy. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, 83, 209-242.
Kusnetzov, A.B., Melezhik, V.A., Gorokhov, I.M., Mel'nikov, N.N., Fallick, A.E., 2003. Sr isotope composition in Palaeoproterozoic Carbonates extremely enriched in 13C: Kaniapiskkau Supergroup, the Labrador Trough of the Canadian Shield. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation, 11, 209-219.
Roberts, D., Melezhik, V.A., Heldal, T., 2002. Carbonate formations and early NW-directed thrusting in the highest allochthons of the Norwegian Caledonides – evidence of a Laurentian ancestry Journal of the Geological Society, London 159. 1-5.
Melezhik, V.A., Roberts, D., Gorokhov, I.M., Fallick, A.E., Zwaan, K.B., Kuznetsov, A.B. & Pokrovsky, B.G., 2002. Isotopic evidence for a complex Neoproterozoic to Silurian rock assemblage in the North-Central Norwegian Caledonides. Precambrian Research 114, 55-86.
Melezhik, V.A., Gorokhov, I.M., Fallick, A.E., Roberts, D., Kuzhetsov, A.B., Zwann, K.B., Pokrovsky, B.G., 2002. Isotopic stratigraphy suggests Neoproterozoic ages and Laurentian ancestry for high-grade marbles from the North-Central Norwegian Caledonides. Geological Magazine 139, 375-393.
Barnes, S.-J., Melezhik, V.A., Sokolov, S.V., 2001. The composition and mode of formation of the Pechenga nickel deposits, Kola Peninsula, northwestern Russia. Canadian Mineralogist 39, 447-473.
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., 2001. Palaeoproterozoic travertines of volcanic affiliation from a 13C-rich rift lake environment. Chemical Geology 173, 293-312.
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Medvedev, P.V., Makarikhin, V., 2001. Palaeoproterozoic magnesite: lithological and isotopic evidence for playa/sabkha environments. Sedimentology 48, 379-397.
Melezhik, V.A., Gorokhov, I.M., Fallick, A.E., Gjelle, S., 2001. Strontium and carbon isotope geochemistry applied to dating of carbonate sedimentation: an example from high-grade rocks of the Norwegian Caledonides. Precambrian Research 108, 267-292.
Melezhik, V.A., Gorokhov, I.M., Kuzhetsov, A.B., Fallick, A.E., 2001. Chemostratigraphy of Neoproterozoic carbonates: implications for ‘blind dating’. Terra Nova 13, 1-11.
Roberts, D., Heldal, T., Melezhik, V. A., 2001. Tectonic structural features of the Fauske conglomerates in the Løvgavlen quarry, Nordland, Norwegian Caledonides, and regional implications. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, 81, 245-256.
Reimann, C., Melezhik, V.A., 2001. Metallogenetic provinces, geochemical provinces, regional geology – what causes large scale patterns in ultra low density geochemical maps of the C-horizon of podzols in Arctic Europe. Applied Geochemistry 16, 963-983.
Kovalevsky, V.V., Melezhik, V.A., 2000. The Karelian shungite: unique geological occurrence, unusual structure and properties, new practical applications. In: Rammlmair, D., Mederer, J., Oberthür, Th., Heimann, R.B., Pentinghaus, H. (Eds.), Applied Mneralogy in Research, Economy, Technology, Ecology and Culture, vol. 1, A.A.Balkema/Rotterdam/Brookfield, the Netherlands, p. 363-366.
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Medvedev, P.V., Makarikhin, V.V., 2000. Palaeoproterozoic magnesite–stromatolite–dolostone–'red bed' association, Russian Karelia: palaeoenvironmental constraints on the 2.0 Ga positive carbon isotope shift. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, 80, 163-186.
Melezhik, V.A., Heldal, T., Roberts, D., Gorokhov, I.M., Fallick, A.E., 2000. Depositional environment and apparent age of the Fauske carbonate conglomerate, North Norwegian Caledonides. Nor. Geol. Unders. Bulletin, 436, 147-168.
Melezhik, V.A., Lindahl, I., Pokrovsky, B., Nilsson, L. P., 2000. Sulphur source and genesis of polymetallic sulphide occurrences of the Ofoten district in the Central-North Norwegian Caledonides: evidence from sulphur isotopic studies. Mineralium Deposita, 35, 465-489.
Green, T., Melezhik, V.A., 1999. Geology of the Pechenga ore deposits – A review with comments on ore forming processes. In: Keays, R.R., Lesher, C.M., P.C. Lighfoot, P.C., Farrow, C.E.G. (eds.). Short Course Notes 13 ‘Dynamic processes in Magmatic Ore Deposits and Their Application to Mineral Exploration’, p. 287-328.
Heldal, T., Melezhik, V.A., Roberts, D., 1999. Fauskemarmoren – en unik forekomst. GEO, Populærfaglig Tidssskrift, 5, 30-33
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Filippov, M.M., O. Larsen, O., 1999. Karelian shungitean indication of 2000 Ma-year-old metamorphosed oil-shale and generation of petroleum: geology, lithology and geochemistry. Earth Science Reviews 47, 1-40.
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Medvedev, P.V, Makarikhin, V.V., 1999. Extreme 13Ccarb enrichment in ca. 2.0 Ga magnesite-stromatolite-dolomite-'red beds' association in a global context: a case for the world-wide signal enhanced by a local environment. Earth Science Reviews 48, 71-120.
Melezhik, V. A., Grinenko L.N., Fallick A.E., 1998. 2000 Ma sulphide concretions from the 'Productive' Formation of the Pechenga Greenstone Belt, NW Russia: genetic history based on morphological and isotopic evidence. Chemical Geology, 148, 61-94.
Gorokhov, I.M., Kuznetsov, A.B., Melezhik, V.A., Konstantinova, G.V., Melnikov, N.N., 1998. Sr isotope composition of upper Jatulian dolostones of the Tulomozero Formation, south-eastern Karelia. Transactions of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Earth Sciences Sections (Geochemistry), 360(4), 533-536.
Melezhik, V.A., Sturt, B.A., 1998. The early Proterozoic Pechenga-Varzuga Belt: a case of Precambrian back-arc spreading by Evgenii V. Sharkov and Valery F. Smolkin, 1997, Precambrian Research 82, 133-152: Comments. 215-217.
Melezhik, V.A., Sturt, B.A., 1998. The Proterozoic (2.5-1.7 Ga) Midcontinent rift system of the northeastern Fennoscandian Shield versus The early Proterozoic Pechenga-Varzuga Belt: a case back-arc spreading. Discussion. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 35, 720-725.
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., Makarikhin, V.V., Lyubtsov, V.V., 1997. Links between Palaeoproterozoic palaeogeography and rise and decline of stromatolites: Fennoscandian Shield. Precambrian Research 82, 311-348.
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., 1997. Paradox regained? Reply. Terra Nova, 3, 148-151.
Pokrovsky, B.G., Melezhik, V.A., 1995. Carbonate carbon isotope anomalies in Early Proterozoic rocks of the Kola Peninsula. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation, 2, 122-132.
Melezhik, V.A., Sturt, B.A., Mokrousov, V.A, Ramsay, D.M., Nilsson, L.-P., Balashov Yu.A., 1995. The early Proterozoic Pasvik-Pechenga Greenstone Belt: 1:100,000 geological map, stratigraphiv correlation and revision of stratigraphic nomenclature. Nor. geol. undersøkelse Spec. Publ., 7, 1995, 81-91.
Melezhik, V.A., Sturt, B.A., 1994. General geology and evolutionary history of the early Proterozoic Polmak-Pasvik-Pechenga-Imandra/Varzuga-Ust'ponoy Greenstone Belt in the northeastern Baltic Shield. Earth Science Reviews, 36, 205-241.
Melezhik, V.A., Hudson-Edwards, K.A., Skuf'in, P.K., Nilsson L.-P., 1994. The Pechenga area, Russian. Part I: Geological setting and comparison with Pasvik, Norway. Inst. Mining. Metall., Section B, Applied Earth Science 103, 129-146.
Melezhik, V.A., Hudson-Edwards, K.A., Green, T, Grinenko, L., 1994. The Pechenga area, Russia. Part 2: nickel-copper deposits and related rocks. Inst. Mining. Metall., Section B, Applied Earth Science, 103, 146-161.
Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., 1994. A world-wide 2.2-2.0 Ga-old positive d13Ccarb anomaly as a phenomenon in relation to the Earth’s major palaeoenviromental changes. Mineralogical Magazine, 85A, 593-594.
Sturt, B.A., Melezhik, V.A., Ramsay, D.M., 1994. Early Proterozoic regolith at Pasvik, NE Norway: palaeotectonical implications for the Baltic Shield. Terra Nova, 6, 618-633.
Education (degrees, dates, universities):
Engineer in mining geology from the High Mining School of Miass, USSR, 1968.
M.Sc. in geology of uranium deposits from the State University of Leningrad, USSR, 1973.
Ph.D. in mineralogy and petrology from the University of Voronezh, USSR, 1977.
D.Sc. in Precambrian sedimentology from the Geological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, USSR, 1989.
Career/Employment (employers, positions and dates):
Apr.1968-Aug.1968:
Permanent position as a geologist-technician at the Geological Survey of the Far East region of the USSR, Komsomolsk-Upon-Amur, USSR.
Oct.1973-Nov. 1973:
Engaged as a laboratory assistant at the Geological Institute of the Kola Scientific Centre of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Apatity, USSR.
Dec.1976-Apr. 1984:
Permanent position as a junior scientist at the Geological Institute of the Kola Scientific Centre of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Apatity, USSR.
Apr.1984-Sep. 1986:
Appointed to Senior Scientist at the Geological Institute of the Kola Scientific Centre of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Apatity, USSR.
Sep.1986-May 1989:
Appointed to Senior Chief Scientist at the Geological Institute of the Kola Scientific Centre of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Apatity, USSR.
May 1989-Nov.1990:
Permanent position as Deputy Director (research and international scientific co-operation) at the Geological Institute of the Kola Scientific Centre of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Apatity, USSR.
Nov. 1990-Nov. 1992:
Fellowship of NAVF, Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway.
Nov. 1992-Jul. 1993:
The Royal Society Fellowship at the Scottish Universities Research & Reactor Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
Jul. 1993-Nov. 1995:
Appointed to Senior Geologist (three year-research contract) at NGU, the Section of Mineral Resources.
Jun. 1996-:
Professor competence, Norwegian National Committee, Norway, Trondheim.
Jan. 1997-:
Permanent position as Senior Scientist at NGU, Department of Mineral Resources.
Nov. 2000-Jun. 2004:
NorFa Guest Professor at the University of Oulu, Finland.
May 2007-:
Professor II, Centre for Geobiology, University of Bergen, Norway.