Tectonophysics
Tectonophysics, a branch of
Overview
Tectonophysics is concerned with movements in the
History
Tectonophysics was adopted as the name of a new section of AGU on April 19, 1940, at AGU's 21st Annual Meeting. According to the AGU website (https://tectonophysics.agu.org/agu-100/section-history/), using the words from Norman Bowen, the main goal of the tectonophysics section was to “designate this new borderline field between geophysics, physics and geology … for the solution of problems of tectonics.” Consequently, the claim below that the term was defined in 1954 by Gzolvskii is clearly incorrect. Since 1940 members of AGU had been presenting papers at AGU meetings, the contents of which defined the meaning of the field.
Tectonophysics was defined as a field in 1954 when Mikhail Vladimirovich Gzovskii published three papers in the journal Izvestiya Akad. Nauk SSSR, Sireya Geofizicheskaya: "On the tasks and content of tectonophysics", "Tectonic stress fields", and "Modeling of tectonic stress fields". He defined the main goals of tectonophysical research to be study of the mechanisms of
See also
Notes
- ^ ISBN 978-0-08-102909-1, retrieved 2023-10-23
- ^ Rebetsky 2009
- ^ Mikhailova et al. 2001
References
- Rebetsky, Yu. L. (2009). "Modern problems of tectonophysics". Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth. 45 (11): 933–937. S2CID 128628371.
- Mikhailova, A. V.; Nikonov, A. A.; Osokina, D. N.; Rebetsky, Yu. L.; Yakovlev, F. L. (2001). "Mikhail V. Gzovskii and Creation of Tectonophysics (On the 80th Anniversary of His Birth)" (PDF). Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth. 37 (2). Translated from Fizika Zemli, No. 2, 2001, pp. 103–111: 183–190.
- Whitcomb, James H. (1979). "Impact of technology on tectonophysics". Impact of technology on geophysics. National Academies. pp. 70–80.
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