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Geotectonics has a special place among the geological dis­ ciplines. In addition to ideas based on firmly established facts that constitute lasting scientific values, geotectonics, as a generalizing branch of geology, embraces broad con­ structions that link the planet's deep interior with its sur­ face and are largely of a hypothetical character. The inter­ pretation of the most general matters of the structure and evolution of the globe varies not only from one generation of geologists to another, but even within one generation. The interpretation depends not only, and not so much, on the state of geological knowledge, as on the progress of the related sciences of geophysics and geochemistry. In trying to discover the deep-lying causes of tectonic processes, geotectonics has to unite the results of all the Earth sci­ ences, converting itself to some extent from a purely geologi­ cal science into a general physical geographic or geonomic science. The fluidity of the general ideas andthe need for joint consideration of the geological, geophysical, and geochemi­ cal data to substantiate these ideas are the main difficulties facing the author of a textbook on geotectonics. There is undoubtedly, however, a need for a manual of this kind, particularly now when the literature on the various problems of geotectonics has grown so great and so varied in content that it is very difficult for the experienced researcher, let alone the student, to find his way.

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Author:   V. V. Beloussov
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.608kg
ISBN:  

9783642671784

ISBN 10:   3642671780
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   07 December 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. The Content of Geotectonics.- 2. Types of Tectonic Process.- I Tectonics of Continents.- Section A General Tectonic Movements of the Earth’s Crust.- 3. Present-day Oscillatory Movements.- 4. Recent Oscillatory Movements.- 5. Ancient Oscillatory Movements of the Crust.- 6. Oscillatory Movements of the Earth’s Crust and the Formation of Thicknesses and Facies of Sedimentary Series.- 7. Methods of Studying Ancient Oscillatory Movements.- 8. General Properties of Oscillatory Movements of the Crust.- 9. General Disjunctive Tectonic Movements of the Crust.- Section B Tectonic Movements Within the Crust.- 10. Block Folding.- 11. Injection Folding.- 12. The Folding of General Crumpling.- 13. Deep Folding and General Considerations About Folding Movements.- 14. Intracrustal Faults.- Section C Patterns of the Evolution of Continents.- 15. Endogenous Continental Regimes/General Features and Geosynclinal Regimes.- 16. Platform and Orogenic Regimes.- 17. Rift, Magmatic Activization, and Continental Margin Regimes.- 18. Principal Patterns of the Endogenous Development of Continents.- 19. Principles of the Zoning of Continents by Endogenous Regimes.- II Tectonics of Oceans.- 20. Relief, Sediments, and Rocks of the Ocean Floor.- 21. Tectonics of the Ocean Floor.- III The Earth’s Internal Structure, Composition, and Deep Processes.- 22. General Data on the Earth’s Shape, Rotation, and Structure.- 23. The Crust and Upper Mantle (Tectonosphere).- 24. The Main Stages in the Development of Geotectonics.- 25. Recent Views on Geotectonics.- 26. The Search for a Synthesis.- Literature.

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