Tectonics and Geodynamics of the Oceanic Lithosphere Formation: From Simple to Complex [Review of the book by Yu. N. Raznitsyn Tectonic Layering of the Lithosphere of Young Oceans and Paleobasins (Nauka, Moscow, 2004), 270 pp.]

摘要

The basic role of oceans in the geological evolution of the Earth is well known. The study of their structure, origin, history, and dynamics of development is a top-priority line of investigation in modern geological science. Over the last two decades, Russian and foreign researchers have gained a great body of geological and geophysical information that indicates a substantially more complex structure of oceans than was thought before. These data come into conflict with postulates of plate tectonics, and without any doubt, it would be unwise to ignore them. These contradictions are dual; on the one hand, they indicate the necessity of modernizing principles of plate tectonics that hamper its progress, and on the other hand, they require a search for new concepts, approaches, methods, and technologies to be applied to geotectonic analysis of geological and geophysical data.