ON RATIONAL LIMITS OF THE GEOMORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SOME TIME DEFINITIONS

Abstract

The expansion of modern geomorphology beyond its traditional limits leads, on the one hand, to the strengthening of its contacts with adjacent sciences, particularly with geology, on the other hand, to the distraction of its attention from the main aim — a study of present-day landforms and external geodynamic processes. While interacting with («ther science about the Earth, geomorphology must preserve its distinctive features and position. Reconstructions of landforms of the past geological epochs is the problem of historical geology and, particularly, paleogeomorphology, which is a branch of geology.

Time in a geomorphological process, as well as in other natural processes is not an independent factor, but is only a directed continuous link of discontinuous (limited) geodynamic events.