In search of basis for geomorphological concept (on some results of recent geomorphological studies in Mongolia)

Abstract

A thorough examination is given to dynamic principles involved in orogenesis. A notion of «morphodynamic complex» is introduced, its contents being elucidated. Morphodynamic complexes of general interest with view to orogenesis problems are identified and described, including constructive complexes of pedestal mountains, rift mountains and mountains of Siberian type, and destructive complexes of low and remnant mountains, hillocky topography, erosional plains and tectonic depressions.