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We present the first systematic results of U-Pb LA-ICP-MS dating of detrital zircons from 12 samples representing different stratigraphic levels of 5 sections of the Permian-Triassic rocks, located within the eastern part of the Moscow basin (syneclise) – Zhukov ravine, Astashikha, Nedubrovo, Balebikha and Klykovo. It is shown that the accumulation of the Upper Permian and Lower Triassic terrigenous complexes occurred under the influence of competing sources with two contrasting provenance signals with Neoproterozoic (Vendian)-Paleozoic and Paleo-Mesoproterozoic ages. The identified provenance signal patterns were used to detail the correlation and stratigraphic subdivision of the Permian-Triassic terrigenous complex of the Moscow basin. Raman spectroscopy of detrital zircon, first applied to the Permian-Triassic rocks of the East European platform, made it possible to identify sedimentary complexes of a relatively older terrigenous basin as a separate source of zircons, which experienced superimposed thermal impact in the VendianCambrian time (~500–600 Ma).

The results of U-Pb LA-ICP-MS dating of 150 detrital zircon grains from the Precambrian (Riphean?) sandstones of the Kildin group on the coast of the Ivanovka Bay (northeastern Kola Peninsula) are presented. A group of three youngest grains yielded constraint on the sandstone maximum depositional age of 1179±45 Ma. Detrital zircon age distribution is dominated by three maximums of 1.9, 2.4 and 2.7 Ga. The authors consider two complementary scenarios of interpretation of the data obtained. The first scenario involves the contribution of distant provenance out of granitoids in the Lapland-Kola orogen (~1.9 Ga) and adjacent areas of the Kola-Karelia region (~2.7 Ga), Imandra-Varzuga structure (~2.4 Ga), and Sveconorwegian belt (~1.2 Ga); the off-Baltic (Greenland?) sources of the detrital zircon also cannot be excluded. According to the second scenario, the Ivanovsky graben received zircons also from the proximal sources – sialic complexes formed upon melting of granite-gneiss substratum of the upper crust of the Murmansk craton during largescale episodic mafic magmatism 1.86, 2.50 and 2.68 Ga. The Raman spectroscopy showed that about 25 % of the analyzed detrital zircon grains experienced a 1.4-Ga-old thermal effect which did not lead to Pb losses but partially restored the crystalline structure of zircon. This result can be used as an additional constraint in the detailed provenance analysis of the northeastern East European Platform sedimentary basins and is indicative of 1.4-Ga-old large-scale magmatic events related to the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna.

The first results of U-Pb LA-ICP-MS dating of 150 detrital zircon grains from the Upper Permian sandstone of the Boyevaya Gora section (Orenburg region, the Southern Cis-Urals) are presented. 95 conditional zircon U-Pb isotopic dates form two age peaks – 381 and 529 Ma. It is assumed that clastic material entered the sedimentation basin mainly due to erosion of the Early Hercynian Ural complexes and relics of the Protouralian-Timanian orogen.