Vladimir G. Trifonov

Professor, Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy

Geological Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia

ORCID

Research interests: geodynamics, recent and active tectonics, seismotectonics, active faults, mountain folding, historical geoecology, quaternary geology, tectonophysics, geomorphology, subcrustal geodynamics, geoarchaeology, historical and regional geology.

Research areas: Caucasian region, Transcaucasia, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Caspian region, Southern and Western Turkmenistan, Pamir-Hindu Kush region, Tajik depression, the Tien Shan, Kazakhstan, the Urals, Mongolia, Kamchatka, Western USA, Cuba, Iceland, Italy, Greece.

Scientific contribution:
- Establishing of neotectonic research in the Caucasus region, Southern Turkmenistan, Tien Shan, the Pamir and Tajik Depression, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Mongolia, Cuba.
- Pioneering application of remote sensing in neotectonics;
- Development of methods for studying active faults and lithosphere stratification;
- Application of active faults for seismic hazard assessment;
- Maps of active faults of the USSR (1:8 000 000, 1986), Eurasia (1:10 000 000; Trifonov, 1997, 2004), Armenia, Azerbaijan, Eastern Turkey, Syria, Kopet Dag, Zagros, Western and Central Mongolia;
- Contribution to seismotectonic basis for the seismic zoning of Russia (OSR-97) and the countries of the Arabian-Caucasian region;
- Contribution to orogeny models and the effect of active tectonics on the evolution of human society.

Publications 2019–2024

• Tesakov A.S., Frolov P., Simakova A., Yakimova A., Titov V., Ranjan P., Çelik H., Trifonov V., 2024. Plio-Pleistocene Small Mammal-Based Biochronology of Eastern Anatolia and Transcaucasus. QUATERNARY 7(4), 42. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat7040042

• Trifonov V.G., Tesakov A.S., Simakova A.N., Çelik H., Frolov P.D., Bachmanov D.M., Trikhunkov Y.I., 2024. Comparison of Neotectonic Intermontane Basins of Northern Armenia and Eastern Turkey. GEOTECTONICS 58(3), 344–367. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852124700262
• Trikhunkov Y.I., Ҫelik H., Lomov V.S., Trifonov V.G., Bachmanov D.M., Karginoglu Y., Sokolov S.Y., 2024. Geological Position, Structural Manifestations of the Elbistan Earthquake and Tectonic Comparison of Two Strongest 06.02.2023 Seismic Events in Eastern Turkiye. GEOTECTONICS 58(3), 368–383. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852124700250
• Trifonov V.G., Sokolov S.A., Ovsyuchenko A.N., Sokolov S.Yu., Batsaikhan Ts., Demberel S., Butanaev Y.V., Koshevoy N.G., 2024. Active Faults of Northern Central Mongolia, Their Correlation with Neotectonics and Deep Structure of the Region. GEOTECTONICS 58(2), 149–176. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852124700109
• Trifonov V.G., Tesakov A.S., Simakova A.N., Gaydalenok O.V., Frolov P.D., Bylinskaya M.E., Trikhunkov Ya.I., Bachmanov D.M., Ҫelik H., Hessami K., 2024. Geological and Biotic Context of the Plio-Pleistocene Evolution of the Caucasus-Caspian Region (Akchagylian Transgression). QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 686–687, 120–141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2023.03.011
• Sokolov S.Y., Trifonov V.G., 2024. Arc Tectonic Elements and Upper Mantle Structure of Central and Southeast Asia: Seismic Tomography and Seismicity Data. GEOTECTONICS 58(1), 23–40. https://doi.org/10.1134/S001685212470002X
• Trifonov V.G., Sokolov S.Y., Sokolov S.A., Maznev S.V., Yushin K.I., Demberel S., 2023. Khangai Intramantle Plume (Mongolia): 3D Model, Influence on Cenozoic Tectonics, and Comparative Analysis. GEOTECTONICS 57(6), 774–806. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852123060079
• Ҫelik H., Trikhunkov Y.I., Sokolov S.A., Trifonov V.G., Zelenin E.A., Kargınoğlu Y., Yushin K.I., Lomov V.S., Bachmanov D.M., 2023. Tectonic Aspects of the East Anatolian 06.02.2023 Earthquake in Turkiye*. IZVESTIYA, PHYSICS OF THE SOLID EARTH 59(6), 822–838. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351323060058
• Çelik H., Trifonov V.G., Tesakov A.S., Sokolov S.A., Frolov P.D., Simakova A.N., Shalaeva E.A., Belyaeva E.V., Yakimova A.A., Zelenin E.A., Latyshev A.V., Bachmanov D.M., 2023. Late Pliocene Gilbert Type Delta and Early Pleistocene Drainage System Changes in the Erzurum Basin, NE Turkiye. STRATIGRAPHY AND GEOLOGICAL CORRELATION 31(6), 700–720. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593823060023
• Shalaeva E.A., Trifonov V.G., Trikhunkov Y.I., Titov V.V., Avagyan A.V., Sahakyan L.H., Simakova A.N., Frolov P.D., Sokolov S.A., Vasilyeva M.A., Bachmanov D.M., Hovakimyan H.G., 2023. Erratum to: The Neotectonics and Geological Structure of the Sevan Intermountain Basin (Armenia): New Structural and Palaeontologic Data (Geotectonics, (2023), 57, 4, (446–459), 10.1134/S0016852123020073). GEOTECTONICS 57(5), 691. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852123140017
• Shalaeva E.A., Trifonov V.G., Trikhunkov Ya.I., Titov V.V., Avagyan A.V., Sahakyan L.H., Simakova A.N., Frolov P.D., Sokolov S.A., Vasilyeva M.A., Bachmanov D.M., Ovakymyan G.M., 2023. The Neotectonics and Geological Structure of the Sevan Intermountain Basin (Armenia): New Structural and Palaeontologic Data. GEOTECTONICS 57(4), 446–459. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852123020073
• Zelenin E., Bachmanov D., Garipova S., Trifonov V., Kozhurin A., 2022. The Active Faults of Eurasia Database (AFEAD): The Ontology and Design Behind the Continental-Scale Dataset. EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA 14(10), 4489–4503. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4489-2022
• Trifonov V.G., Hessami K., Popov S.V., Zelenin E.A., Trikhunkov Ya.I., Frolov P.D., Golovina L.A., Simakova A.N., Rashidi A., Latyshev A.V. 2022. Development of the southern coastal area of the Caspian Sea during the Pliocene–Quaternary according to biostratigraphic and magnetostratigraphic data. STRATIGRAPHY AND GEOLOGICAL CORRELATION. 4(30), 273-291, https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593822040074
• Zelenin E.A, Bachmanov D.M., Garipova S.T., Trifonov V.G., Kozhurin A.I. 2022. The Active Faults of Eurasia Database (AFEAD): the ontology and design behind the continental-scale dataset. EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA. 14, 4489-4503 https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4489-2022
• Simakova A.N., Tesakov A.S., Çelik H., Frolov P.D., Shalaeva E.A., Sokolov S.A., Trikhunkov Y.I. Trifonov V.G. et al., 2021. Caspian-Type Dinocysts in NE Turkey Mark Deep Inland Invasion of the Akchagylian Brackish-Water Basin during the Terminal Late Pliocene. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 605–606, 329–348. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.01.020
• Trifonov V.G., Sokolov S.Y., Bachmanov D.M., Sokolov S.A., Trikhunkov Y.I., 2021. Neotectonics and the Upper Mantle Structure of Central Asia. GEOTECTONICS 55, 334–360. http://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852121030080
• Trifonov V.G., Zelenin E.A., Sokolov S.Y., Bachmanov D.M., 2021. Active Tectonics of Central Asia. GEOTECTONICS 55, 361–376. http://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852121030092
• Trifonov V.G., Sokolov S.Y., Sokolov S.A., Hessami K., 2020. Mesozoic–Cenozoic Structure of the Black Sea–Caucasus–Caspian Region and Its Relationships with the Upper Mantle Structure. GEOTECTONICS 54, 331–355. http://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852120030103
• Trifonov V.G., Simakova A.N., Ҫelik H., Tesakov A.S., Shalaeva E.A., Frolov P.D., Trikhunkov Y., Zelenin E.A., et al., 2020. The Upper Pliocene – Quaternary Geological History of the Shirak Basin (NE Turkey and NW Armenia) and Estimation of the Quaternary Uplift of Lesser Caucasus. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 546, 229–244. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.11.004
• Trifonov V.G., Tesakov A.S., Simakova A.N., Bachmanov D.M., 2019. Environmental and Geodynamic Settings of the Earliest Hominin Migration to the Arabian-Caucasus Region: A Review. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 534, 116–137. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.03.008
• Tesakov A.S., Gaidalenok O.V., Sokolov S.A., Frolov P.D., Trifonov V.G., Simakova A.N., Latyshev A.V., Titov V.V., Shchelinskii V.E., 2019. Tectonics of Pleistocene Deposits in the Northeast of Taman Peninsula, South Azov Sea Region. GEOTECTONICS 53, 548–568. http://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852119050066
• Belyaeva E.V., Lyubin V.P., Trifonov V.G., 2019. Discovery of Sites from the Lower Paleolithic Period in Northern Armenia [Découverte Des Sites du Paléolithique Inférieur au Nord de L’Arménie]. ANTHROPOLOGIE (FRANCE) 123(2), 257–275. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2019.07.001
• Shalaeva E.A., Trifonov V.G., Lebedev V.A., Simakova A.N., Avagyan A.V., Sahakyan L.H., Arakelyan D.G., Sokolov S.A. et al., 2019. Quaternary Geology and Origin of the Shirak Basin, NW Armenia. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 509, 41–61. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.09.017
• Ozherelyev D.V., Trifonov V.G., Çelik H., Trikhunkov Y.I., Frolov P.D., Simakova A.N., 2019. Early Palaeolithic Evidence from the Euphrates River Basin, Eastern Turkey. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 509, 73–86. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.02.035
• Bachmanov D.M., Zelenin E.A., Kozhurin A.I., Trifonov V.G., 2019. Using the Active Faults of Eurasia Database for Solving Tectonic Problems. GEODYNAMICS & TECTONOPHYSICS 10(4), 971–993. http://doi.org/10.5800/GT-2019-10-4-0453
• Tesakov A.S., Simakova A.N., Frolov P.D., Sytchevskaya E.K., Syromyatnikova E.V., Foronova I.V., Shalaeva E.A., Trifonov V.G., 2019. Early-Middle Pleistocene Environmental and Biotic Transition in North-Western Armenia, Southern Caucasus. PALAEONTOLOGIA ELECTRONICA 22(2), 2–39. http://doi.org/10.26879/916