Abstract
The work presents a review of natural-science representations on the rotary motion of matter and its piecewise structure. Development of dense GPS-networks allowed to experimentally confirm the concept of block structures of the geophysical environment and to prove rotary character of block movement. An analysis of both the migration of earthquake sources and the movement of sections of tectonic plates’ borders has allowed to reveal general properties of such movements and to prove their wave nature. It is shown that within the limits of rotational model, blocks and plates are interconnected among themselves by the elastic long-range fields forming a uniform planetary geodynamic field. It is offered to use the geodynamic solutions of rotational model in the one class of phenomena as a basis at the construction of a new geological paradigm — wave moment geodynamics.
Highlights
The Baikal region and its neighbouring territories are the best studied among many areas subject to traditional geodynamic studies, including comprehensive geological and geophysical observations with regards to tectonophysical concepts
In the regional tectonophysical models, including the model of Central Asia, the concept envisaging the block structure of the geomedium is applied formally or 'rhetorically' – such models are typically constructed with reference to boundaries between the blocks and block length values rather than blocks themselves and their volumes, and the models consider waves propagating along the boundaries between the blocks, but not the waves propagating inside the block medium
In terms of physics, the geodynamics of block interactions in the rotation model can be viewed as a manifestation of the general physical principle of corpuscular–wave dualism envisaging that movements of geophysical blocks, tectonic plates and geological structures have both corpuscular and wave features, as discussed below
Summary
The Baikal region and its neighbouring territories are the best studied among many areas subject to traditional geodynamic studies, including comprehensive geological and geophysical observations with regards to tectonophysical concepts. In the regional tectonophysical models, including the model of Central Asia, the concept envisaging the block structure of the geomedium is applied formally or 'rhetorically' – such models are typically constructed with reference to boundaries between the blocks and block length values rather than blocks themselves and their volumes, and the models consider waves propagating along the boundaries between the blocks (i.e. along the faults), but not the waves propagating inside the block medium This terminological ‘swapping’ – ‘speaking about blocks, while thinking about faults’– is not just a habitual use of ‘fault’ as a commonly accepted term with a ‘standard’ reference to the local stress accumulation mechanism A more general approach can facilitate finding original pathways to reviewing and solving geodynamic problems in the Earth sciences [Vikulin et al, 2012a, 2012b]
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