Geomorphological methods application to the recent tectonics study

Abstract

The system of «recent movements of the earthcrust» includes several hierarchically subordinate types of movements differing in duration (from few years and tens of years to millenia). «Background» movements are also distinguished, which are resultant of all the types, they control to a considerable extent the exogenous processes direction and rate throughout commensurate time intervals. Geomorphological methods can and must be applied to study of all types of movements, in each case a technique should be chosen considering its precision with regard to the movement's rate. Most precise techniques call for further elaboration so as to be able to detect the earthcrust oscillations of short duration.