Indian-Pacific as inter-oceanic geotecture of crushing

Abstract

Some geomorphological aspects of global plate tectonics are discussed with view to origin of Indo-Pacific geotecture which is a giant system of subcontinerital massifs, island arcs of various types, deep oceanic depressions and troughs, the system is located between two oceanic basins (Pacific and Indian) and between two continehts (Asia and Australia). The origin and evolution of this global geomorphological phenomenon was controlled by complicate two-way spreading and subduction processes.