На основе новой теории глобальной тектоники плит, получившей геоморфологическое подтверждение при составлении Карты поверхностей выравнивания и кор выветривания СССР, рассмотрены наиболее важные события среднего макроцикла геоморфологического этапа истории Земли и их роль в формировании рельефа. Впервые выделены и кратко охарактеризованы 15 главных элементов архитектуры Земли (геотектуры).

Выделяются две составляющие неотектогенеза: унаследованные и автономные движения. Рассматриваются рельефо- и структурообразующая роль этих движений и их соотношения в неотектогенезе в зависимости от возраста, размеров и других особенностей структур и положения последних на плитах. Дается новое определение морфоструктуры и анализируется его соотношение с понятиями «древняя структура» и «новейшая структура». на основе этого оцениваются возможности морф структурного анализа в деле прогноза структур осадочного чехла.

Сопоставление ор гидрографии центральных частей Русской равнины с тектоникой фундамента позволило установить приуроченность главного водораздела к системе глубинных разломов и линейных блоков северо-восточного простирания. Пространственно с ними связаны также границы плейстоценовых оледенений. По комплексу признаков определен плейстоценовый возраст инверсии современного рельефа Русской равнины по отношению к тектонической структуре осадочного чехла и фундамента. Сделан вывод о гляциоизостатическом происхождении этой инверсии и рассмотрена возможная схема ее механизма.

Приводятся результаты стереофотограмметрической обработки разновременных крупномасштабных аэрофотосъемок для количественной оценки процессов овраг образования в высокосейсмичном горном районе Таджикистана. Целесообразность использования аэрофотосъемки здесь методически оправдана тем, что полученные скорости овражной денудации на порядок превышают ошибки измерений. Для оценки точности измерений специально выполнена повторная фототеодолитная съемка отдельных участков в пределах площади обработки аэрофотосъемок.

Объект исследования - типичные для данного района два крупных оврага с общей зоной аккумуляции (конусом выноса).

Получены количественные показатели изменения их площадей, высоты поверхности и объемов.

П.А. Кропоткин - основоположник теории материкового оледенения (к 100-летию выхода в свет «Исследований о ледниковом периоде»)

Present-day topography of the Middle and Southern Urals presents different manifestation of intrusive masses. Those corresponding to topographic elevations wedge out downwards, intrusive masses which have no topographic manifestation are horizontal sheets. An analysis of the masses forms, their geomorphological features, physical properties of rocks (including resistance to weathering and erosion) as well as data on dynamic conditions of the Urals neotectonic development leads the authors to the conclusion that the topographic elevations within the intrusive masses area are due to tangential contraction of the earthcrust, the tectonic wedges being thus squeezed upward.

Calculated data are given on absolute and relative values of ionic runoff and chemical denudation intensity at 16 drainage basins at high, middle and low mountain belts at the Western Caucasus. The largest rivers – Laba, Belaya, Pshekha – are proved to have the greatest values of the ionic runoff. The ionic runoff index decreases towards north-west in connection with change of the environment. The chemical denudation intensity diminishes at the same direction, its maximum values being within the belt of middle-height mountains with the optimum hydrothermic regime. The chemical denudation index is estimated at 78 m³/km² per year or 78 mm per 1000 years.

Most typical topographic features of Timan are discussed and an orographic scheme of the ridge is suggested. The chain of low uplands the Timan Ridge cosists of has been formed by active tectonic movements (neotectonics in particular), the passive lithological control being of minor significance. Within the limits of the ridge an erosional planation surface exists which is subdivided into two levels of different age (both withing Mesozoic time). A series of accumulative steplike surfaces is situated at 140-180 m a. s. l. and lower. The possibility has been confirmed to consider the Timan Ridge to be of the same genetic group with other platformian ridges of the Russian Plain.

The relief development at the territory under discussion is closely related to paleomorphological cycles of various order (macrocycles, mesoccycles etc.) with duration about 160-156, 83-75 and 44-37 million years. During the Late Tournai – Early Lias macrocycle base uplift occured at the area of the South Tier Shan geosyncline. In Middle Lias – Middle Oligocene the uplift was eroded and heterogeneous topography was created which was buried later on. In Neogene-Pleistocene block mountains came into being with relicts of planation surfaces and weathering crusts of Mesozoic, Cenozoic and Paleozoic age. Weathering crusts of humid lithogenesis had been formed in the beginning and final stages of mesocycles, arid lithogenesis and crust formation developing within the intervals.

Ramified paleo-drainage of Pre-Akchagylian age is discussed, which had been buried under Pliocene-Quaternary deposits at the sand plains of Low and South-Eastern Kara Kum. Main valley was paleo- Amu Darya, which crossed Kara Kum from East to West and had several left tributaries (paleo-Balldi, paleo-Murgab, paleo-Tedgen etc.). Right tributaries have not been known yet. Studies of ancient valley pattern in Turkmenistan are of importance for geological prospecting, fresh water and hydrocarbons in particular.

The moments, when the shoreline has not yet got and already got its present position, are assumed to be dated by age of spits situated within the bay and its inlets at various height from 0 to 10 meters a. s. 1. The spits age defined as time interval which is necessary for the spit accumulation was calculated on the base of the spit volume and energy, duration, and frequency of sediment-moving waves within the bay. The calculation was complicated by special hydrological conditions of the bay, by very high level of storm surges in particular. An uncontradictory time series has been deduced, its average values being from 7,5 to 1,5 thousand years. The reference sea level at the Vankina Guba bay rose for two meters within the time interval.

A cartographic analysis of drainage pattern allows to get quick information on main morphostructures of the region under study. Conceptions of «drainage pattern» (geometrical scheme of network formed by streams) and «stream distribution» (distribution of drainage directions) are defined, the two main properties jointly characterize type of drainage net. The methods of analysis include the territory regionalization according to types of drainage net, some additional properties of the net being used; the materials obtained are interpreted from the point of view of morphostructures. Morphostructural regionalization of the North-East Asia on the base of drainage pattern analysis is considered as a case study.

The Pitsunda Peninsula is considered to be an aggregation form typical for the Caucasian coast. Its complex structure is determined not only by high variety of the rock facies but by their lateral changes as well. Time model of the Pitsunda mass has been constructed on the base of sediments absolute dating, which was used as a main criterion for estimation of the formation regime.

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