This English translation of "Istoricheskaya Geotektonika"

Contents: Origin of solar system and formation of planet Earth. Hadean 4.5-4.0 b.y.) stage of development; Early Archaean (4.0-3.5 b.y.): oldest sialic crust of the earth and problems of its formation; Middle and Late Archaean (3.5-2.5 b.y.): granite-greenstone terranes and granulite belts. Formation of mature continental crust; Early Proterozoic: partial destruction and restoration of Pangea; Early Riphean: new stage of destruction and commencement of fragmentation of Pangea I' Middle Riphean: continuation of destruction and...

This translation discusses historical geotectonics.

Contents: Vendian - Late Cambrian. Development of Phanerozoic mobile belts; Ordovician - Mature stage of Caledonian and initial stage of development of Hercynian mobile belts; Silurian-Early Devonian. Completion of development of the Caledonian and early stage of development of Hercynian mobile belts; Middle Devonian-Early Carboniferous. Mature stage of development of Hercynian mobile belts. Inundation of cratons; Middle-Late Carboniferous - Early Triassic. End of development of the Hercynian and birth of Cimmerian mobile belts;...

Examines the structural evolution of the Earth's crust from the Triassic period to the present. The book describes the patterns of distribution, and the composition and accumulation conditions of formations in the various geological periods in all...