Neotectonic movements, recent endogenous regime and topography of the Caucasian and Carpathian regions

Abstract

A new method is introduced to classify and map regions by the earth-crust types and recent endogenous regimes. Areas of certain regimes when compared with neotectonic structure and topography manifest a great variety of the corelation. The author concludes that the same neotectonic structures and similar types of topography (both positive and negative) may belong to areas of different endogenous regimes (both constructive and destructive). Some regions are indicated where neotectonic structures disagree with classes of recent endogenous regimes which accounts for possibility of autonomous topographic evolution of the regions.