Abstract
The thick (up to 17000 m) sequence of Albian, Upper Cretaceous, Paleogene, and Neogene ter-rigenous and less abundant volcanic rocks was deposited with breaks in sedimentation but without any tectonic rearrangements within the paleobasin bounded by the West Sakhalin and Tym-Poronai fault systems in the west and the east, respectively. The intensity of sagging progressively increased with time and reached a maximum in the late Miocene and Pliocene. The contemporary structure of the terrane started to form in the Pleistocene and has continued to form until now in the course of local inversion under the setting of dominating regional compression oriented in the ENE-E direction (60°–90°). The local indications of the SE-NW compression presumably are a result of pressure from the side of the Pacific Plate subducted beneath the Kurile-Kamchatka arc. Compression in these competing directions developed and develops contemporaneously within the same region.
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