A tectonic map ( English Tectonic map ) is a kind of geological map that reflects the modern structure of the Earth's crust and its individual regions, as well as the history of its development, taking into account all the patterns that have emerged. The conventions allow us to understand the three-dimensionality (bulk) of tectonic bodies.
Content
Description
On a small scale on tectonic maps are depicted - platforms, shields, plates , geosynclines , folded areas.
On a large scale - individual folds, faults , horst , grabens , etc.
Types of tectonic maps
There are:
- tectonic zoning maps on which natural structural formation units are distinguished;
- structural maps showing structural forms using stratoisohypsum.
History
From the XIX century began to make "tectonic schemes" and "structural maps." The compilation of tectonic maps was complicated by the insufficient knowledge of the structure of the earth's crust and its individual regions, especially in depth. Drilling svkazhin and geophysical methods allow to obtain reasonable information about the spatial distribution of various geological bodies necessary for the preparation of tectonic maps [1] .
Academician N. S. Shatsky compiled the "Tectonic map of the CCCP and adjacent countries" (1953), on the basis of which the "International Tectonic Map of Europe" (1964) was compiled.
In 1969, scientists of the Geological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences received the State Prize of the USSR for participating in the compilation of tectonic maps of Eurasia on a scale of 1: 5,000,000 and in the monograph "Tectonics of Eurasia."
See also
- Geological map
Tectonic maps
Chronological list of main maps:
- 1950 - Tectonic map of Canada - 1: 3 800 000. Washington.
- 1953 - Tectonic Map of the USSR - 1: 4 000 000, Ch. ed. N. S. Shatsky.
- 1956 - Tectonic map of the USSR and neighboring countries - 1: 5 000 000, ch. ed. N. S. Shatsky.
- 1957 - Tectonic map of Azerbaijan - 1: 500 000, ed. V.E. Khain.
- 1962 - International Tectonic Map of Europe [2] - 1: 2 500 000, ed. V.E. Khain, A.A. Bogdanov (reprints 1977, 1981)
- 1962 - Tectonic map of the United States - 1: 2 500 000. Washington.
- 1963 - Tectonic Map of the Arctic - 1: 10 000 000, ch. ed. N. S. Shatsky.
- 1963 - Tectonic map of India - 1: 2 000 000.
- 1966 - Tectonic map of Eurasia - 1: 5 000 000, ch. ed. A.L. Yanshin.
- 1966 - Tectonic Map of Cuba - 1: 1 250 000. Yu. M. Pushcharovsky, A. L. Knipper, M. PuigRif.
- 1969 - Tectonic map of North America - 1: 5,000,000. Washington.
- 1984 - International Tectonic World Map - 1: 15,000,000, ed. V. Ye. Khain and others.
- 1998 - Tectonic Map of the Kara and Laptev Seas and the North of Siberia - 1: 2 500 000, ed. N. A. Bogdanov, V. E. Khain.
- 2010 - Tectonic map of the White Sea and adjacent territories - 1: 1 500 000, ch. ed. M. G. Leonov, G. S. Kazanin.
Explanatory notes to the cards:
- Tectonics of the Urals (explanatory note to the tectonic map of the Urals scale 1: 1 000 000). M .: Science, 1977.
- Tectonics of the Republic of Cuba : Explanatory note to the Tectonic Map of Cuba in scale 1: 500000 / Yu. M. Pushcharovsky, A. A. Mossakovsky, G. E. Nekrasov, etc. - Moscow: Nauka, 1989. - 79 p.
- Tectonic map of the Barents Sea and northern European Russia, scale 1: 2 500 000: Explanatory note / Ed. ed. N. A. Bogdanov, B. E. Hein. M .: Institute of the Lithosphere of RAS, 1996. 94 p.
- Khain V.Ye., Bogdanov N.A., Chekhovich P.A. et al. International tectonic map of the Caspian Sea and its framing. Scale 1: 2,500,000: Explanatory Note / Ed. V. E. Khaina, N. A. Bogdanova. M .: Nauch. World, 2003. 120 p.
Notes
- ↑ Spizharsky T. N. The concept of tectonic map // Survey tectonic maps of the USSR: (mapping and basic issues of tectonics). Leningrad: Nedra, 1973. p. 6-12. (only 240 s., circulation of 3000 copies.)
- Te Carte Tectonique Internationale de l'Europe : Carte tépéonéles de la'Europe; Congres Geologique International, Commission de la Carte Geologique de Monde, Sous-Commission de la Carte Tectonique du Monde. 1: 2,500,000. 1962. Moscow: Academie des sciences de l'URSS, 1962; 206 x 243 cm.
Literature
- Leonov Yu. G., Khain V. Ye. International tectonic map of the world and some conclusions arising from it // International Geological Congress: 27th session. Moscow. 1984: Abstracts. Vol. 3. M .: Science, 1984. p. 258-259.
Links
- Scientific Council on the problems of tectonics and geodynamics at the Division of Earth Sciences RAS.