MORPHOSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF RECENT VERTICAL MOVEMENTS OF THE EUROPEAN PART OF THE USSR

Abstract

The main peculiarities of recent vertical movements of the earth’s crust and their relations with morphostructures of different orders are considered as seen in a new map of recent movements of the European part of the USSR. This map is a part of the International Map of Recent Movements of Eastern Europe (1:2 500 000). The scientific contents of the map is based on a multiple combination of geodetic, oceanographic and geological geomorphological data. Recent vertical movements are characterized by difference in direction, differentiation and general conformity to morphostructures of various orders to the block structure of the earth’s crust and its upper mantle, as well as to the peculiarities of basement structure, Late Cenozoic tectonic movements, geophysical fields and seismity. Recent movements rearrange very often the ancient structural plan, and sometimes there are reversed or displaced relations with geophysical fields and mophostructures.