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Geotectonics

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  • © 1980

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  1. V. V. Beloussov

    1. Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences, USSR

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Introduction

    1. The Content of Geotectonics

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      Pages 1-4

    2. Types of Tectonic Process

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      Pages 5-9

  3. Tectonics of Continents

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. General Tectonic Movements of the Earth’s Crust

      1. Present-Day Oscillatory Movements
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        Pages 13-19
      2. Recent Oscillatory Movements
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        Pages 20-27
      3. Ancient Oscillatory Movements of the Crust
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        Pages 28-42
      4. Oscillatory Movements of the Earth’s Crust and the Formation of Thicknesses and Facies of Sedimentary Series
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        Pages 43-53
      5. Methods of Studying Ancient Oscillatory Movements
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        Pages 54-61
      6. General Properties of Oscillatory Movements of the Crust
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        Pages 62-68
      7. General Disjunctive Tectonic Movements of the Crust
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        Pages 69-83

    3. Tectonic Movements Within the Crust

      1. Block Folding
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        Pages 84-89
      2. Injection Folding
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        Pages 90-100
      3. The Folding of General Crumpling
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        Pages 101-114
      4. Deep Folding and General Considerations About Folding Movements
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        Pages 115-123
      5. Intracrustal Faults
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        Pages 124-135

    4. Patterns of the Evolution of Continents

      1. Endogenous Continental Regimes. General Features and Geosynclinal Regimes
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        Pages 136-145
      2. Platform and Orogenic Regimes
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        Pages 146-156
      3. Rift, Magmatic Activization, and Continental Margin Regimes
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        Pages 157-178
      4. Principal Patterns of the Endogenous Development of Continents
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        Pages 179-200
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About this book

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 and the 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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences, USSR

    V. V. Beloussov

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Geotectonics

  • Authors: V. V. Beloussov

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67176-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: English translation, Mir Publishers 1980

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-67178-4Published: 07 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-67176-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 330

  • Additional Information: Title of the original Russian edition: Geotektonika

  • Topics: Geology

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