COMPARATIVE TECTONICS OF THE BASE OF THE OLD PLATFORMS AND THE HISTORY OF THEIR FORMATION.

• Main Author: Muratov,M. V.
• Other Authors: AERONAUTICAL CHART AND INFORMATION CENTER ST LOUIS MO LINGUISTIC SECTION
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1966
• Subjects: Geology; Geochemistry and Mineralogy; (*STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY); (*FOLDS(GEOLOGY); STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY); GEOLOGIC AGE DETERMINATION; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; ICE; DEPOSITS; ROCK; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; PACIFIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; MOUNTAINS; SEPARATION; Antarctic; Indian; Pacific; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0644095; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0644095

The frameworks of all the continents are the following ten old platforms: Eastern-European, Siberian, Chinese-Korean, South-Chinese, North-American, South American (Brazilian), African, Indian, Australian and Antarctic. The latter five platforms according to recent concepts are fragments of the single southern platform or of the 'old' continent Gondwana. Sravnitelnaya Tektonika Fundamenta Drevnikh Platform i Istoriya Ikh Formirovaniya, trans. of Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii. Geologiya i Razvedka (USSR), v9 n3 48p 1966.