A New Generation of the TectonicGeodynamic Model
of the Earth: Review of the Problem

Yu. M. Pushcharovsky^a and D. Yu. Pushcharovsky^b

^aGeological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevskii per. 7, Moscow, 119017 Russia

^bFaculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Vorob’evy gory, Moscow, 119992 Russia

Received December 26, 2005

Abstract—Presented are the review and analysis of a series of works of Russian scientists devoted to the
motion of continents and to global tectonics and geodynamics. The increasing number of publications on this
subject is accounted for by controversy and imperfection of some theoretical aspects of plate tectonics. This is
especially true of processes in deep mantle geospheres. The analysis performed shows that a transition to cre-
ating tectonogeodynamic models of a new generation has already started. Important components of the models
are the development of the problem of a detached continent drift, primarily, mechanisms of this motion. The
publications under consideration provide insight into several such mechanisms: the effect of the tidal forces of
the Moon and Sun, which induce discrete wave motion in all mantle geospheres down to the core; the difference
in density of oceanic and continental masses; the continental drift over the mantle as a result of cohesion; and
the tectonic flow, which implies a structure-forming motion of both minor (at the microlevel) and major rock
masses in the Earth’s crust and mantle. The globalization of tectonic and geodynamic models has already
allowed the advance of such a timely problem as the history of the geologic evolution of deep geospheres.

DOI: 10.1134/S0016852106030010

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