. Recent endogenic regimes of South-Eastern Asia (with special reference to Vietnam)

Abstract

On the basis of data obtained from South-Eastern Asia (Vietnam and the adjacent regions of China, Laos and Cambodia) a method has been developed which permits to distinguish between types of recent endogenic regimes and to identify their principal stages using two characteristics: the earthcrust's thickness and the present-day surf ace elevation, as well as an empirical connection between them. A destructive process of the earthcrust thinning has been found to be widespread in both orogens and platformian neotectonic structures. Areas of the thickest earthcrust do not coincide with uplifts, nor thinnest earthcrust with subsidences. The method permits regional tectonic subdivision of inadequately studied