Synopses & Reviews
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geodynamics Series, Volume 21.
The Soviet Union includes about one-seventh of the land area on Earth, and Soviet geologists most likely number more than one-seventh of the world's geologists. Moreover, Soviet geologists are probably considerably more familiar with the geological literature of North America and western Europe than the geologists from those regions are with the literature of the Soviet Union.
General summaries of Soviet geology in English have been available, but they are fairly old by now and do not reflect the more recent theoretical developments in the science, in particular the plate-tectonic paradigm. Zonenshain, Kuzmin, and Natapov have mastered that paradigm and are thoroughly familiar with its ramifications; between them they are also familiar with most parts of their vast country.
Synopsis
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the
Geodynamics Series.
The Soviet Union includes about one-seventh of the land area on Earth, and Soviet geologists most likely number more than one-seventh of the world's geologists. Moreover, Soviet geologists are probably considerably more familiar with the geological literature of North America and western Europe than the geologists from those regions are with the literature of the Soviet Union.
General summaries of Soviet geology in English have been available, but they are fairly old by now and do not reflect the more recent theoretical developments in the science, in particular the plate-tectonic paradigm. Zonenshain, Kuzmin, and Natapov have mastered that paradigm and are thoroughly familiar with its ramifications; between them they are also familiar with most parts of their vast country.
Table of Contents
Foreward xiii
Abstract xv
Introduction xvii
Acknowledgements xvii
Chapter I - Tectonic Framework 1
Chapter II - East European Platform 3
Chapter III- Siberian Platform 17
Chapter IV - Uralian Foldbelt 27
Chapter V - Central Asian Foldbelt, Western Part: Central Kazakhstan and Tien Shan 55
Chapter VI - Central Asian Foldbelt, Eastern Part: Altay-Sayan Region and Baikal Upland 73
Chapter VII - Mongol-Okhotsk Foldbelt 97
Chapter VIII- S ikhote-Alin Sakhalin Foldbelt 109
Chapter IX - Foldbelts of the Northeast USSR, Taimyr and the Arctic 121
Chapter X - Koryak-Kamchatka Foldbelt 148
Chapter XI - Alpine-Himalayan Foldbelt Within the USSR 167
Chapter XII- Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic-Cenozoic Sedimentary Basins 197
Chapter XIII - Recent Plate Tectonics 200
Chapter XIV - Summary of the Tectonic Development of the USSR Territory 206
Precambrian history 206
Conclusions 224