“…The WSB basement was formed as a result of collisional events between the Baltica, Siberian, and Kazakhstan paleocontinents [11,12], or the Russian Platform, the East Siberian Platform, and the Kipchak Arc complex [13,14] during the Middle-Late Paleozoic. The final amalgamation of the WSB basement was accompanied by mantle plume activity and during Permian-Triassic times, the WSB basement was affected by rift structures [8,[14][15][16]. In the early phases (~250 Ma ago) it was associated with the formation of a vast province of rift basalts and Siberian flood basalts on the Siberian craton [3].…”