Pavel Azimov


Position

Lecturer, Department of Petrography, Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences

E-mail: p.azimov@spbu.ru

Education, scientific degrees and titles

  • 1994: diploma in the specialty "geologist-geochemist-mineralogist", Faculty of Geology of St. Petersburg University, Department of Mineralogy
  • 2000: Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, specialty 04.00.08 Petrology, Volcanology; dissertation “Origin of growth zoning in metamorphic garnets (the role of P-T conditions and fluid regime)”

Research IDs


Research interests

metamorphism and metasomatism; mineral assemblages and reactions; thermodynamics and kinetics of natural processes; mineral geothermobarometry;
crystal growth.


Key publications

  1. Azimov P.Ya., Shtukenberg A.G. Simulation of phase diagrams for water–salt systems with solid solutions // Russian Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 2000. V. 45. No. 8. P. 1302–1309.
  2. Azimov P., Shtukenberg A. Numerical modelling of the growth zoning at nonstationary crystallisation of solid solutions: metamorphic garnets // Mathematical Geology. 2003. V. 35. No. 4. P. 405–430. DOI: 10.1023/A:1024841907133
  3. Azimov P.Ya., Dolivo-Dobrovolsky D.V., Morozov M.V. The unique orthopyroxene-kyanite paragenesis in granulite from the Central Kola Terrain, Kola Peninsula // Doklady Earth Sciences. 2003. V. 391. No. 6. P. 827–831.
  4. Shtukenberg A.G., Punin Yu.O., Azimov P. Crystallization kinetics in binary solid solution–aqueous solution systems // American Journal of Science. 2006. V. 306. No. 8. P. 553–574. DOI: 10.2475/07.2006.03
  5. Azimov P.Ya., Bushmin S.A. Solubility of minerals of metamorphic and metasomatic rocks in hydrothermal solutions of varying acidity: Thermodynamic modeling at 400-800° C and 1-5 kbar // Geochemistry International. 2007. V. 45. No. 12. P. 1210–1234.
  6. Azimov P.Ya., Astafiev B.Yu., Voinova O.A. Growth deformations of amphiboles in metabasites and metasomatites of the Kostamuksha greenstone structure (Western Karelia) // Proc. Russ. Miner. Soc. 2008. No. 137. No. 4. P. 103–121. (in Russian).
  7. Azimov P.Ya., Bushmin S.A. P-T history of the HT/HP granulite metamorphism associated with thrusting in a junction zone between the Porya Guba and Umba blocks, Lapland Granulite Belt (Northeastern Baltic Shield) // Doklady Earth Sciences. 2009. V. 425. No. 2. P. 393–397. DOI: 10.1134/S1028334X09030106
  8. Slabunov A.I., Azimov P.Ya., Glebovitskii V.A., Zhang L., Kevlich V.I. Archaean and palaeoproterozoic migmatizations in the Belomorian Province, Fennoscandian Shield: Petrology, geochronology, and geodynamic settings // Doklady Earth Sciences. 2016. V. 467. No. 1. P. 259–263. DOI: 10.1134/S1028334X16030077
  9. Skublov S.G., Azimov P.Ya., Li X.-H., Glebovitskii V.A., Melnik A.E. Polymetamorphism of the Chupa Sequence of the Belomorian mobile belt (Fennoscandia): Evidence from the isotope-geochemical (U–Pb, REE, O) study of zircon // Geochemistry International. 2017. V. 55. No. 1. P. 47–59. DOI: 10.1134/S0016702917010098
  10. Azimov P.Ya., Kozakov I.K., Glebovitsky V.A. Early Paleozoic UHT/LP Metamorphism in the Sangilen Block of the Tuvino-Mongolian Massif // Doklady Earth Sciences. 2018. V. 479. No. 1. P. 295–299. DOI: 10.1134/S1028334X18030145
  11. Azimov P., Rizvanova N.G. Evidence of Late Svecofennian elevated-pressure metamorphism in the North Ladoga zonal metamorphic complex, Southeastern Fennoscandian Shield // Petrology. 2021. V. 29. No. 3. P. 300–314. DOI: 10.1134/S0869591121020028
  12. Stepanova A.V., Azimov P., Samsonov A.V., Egorova S.V., Babarina I.I., Larionov A.N., Larionova Yu.O., Kervinen A.V., Stepanov V.S. Paleoproterozoic ca. 2.2 Ga high-Cl metagabbro in the Belomorian province, Eastern Fennoscandian Shield: Origin and tectonic implications // Lithos. 2021. V. 400–401. Article 106377. DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2021.106377
  13. Salnikova E.B., Stepanova A.V., Azimov P.Ya., Sukhanova M.A., Kotov A.B., Egorova S.V., Plotkina Yu.V., Tolmacheva E.V., Kervinen A.V., Rodionov N.V., Stepanov V.S. А history of coronitic metagabbronorites in the Belomorian Province, Fennoscandian shield: U-Pb (CA-ID-TIMS) dating of zircon–baddeleyite aggregates // Petrology. 2022. V. 30. P. 567–590. DOI: 10.1134/S0869591122060066


Other professional activities

  • Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Petrogenesis and Ore Genesis, Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology, Russian Academy of Sciences

Scientific societies

  • Member of the Russian Mineralogical Society

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