Science of geology and tectonics of plates. Karaulov V.B.

The book considers the evolution of scientific geology, starting from its occurrence in the XVIII century to the present. Against the backdrop of the history of science, it is told about how, scientific hypotheses and theories, replacing new ideas, developed, grew, old and went into the past. The achievements of geology at each of the stages of its development are characterized. The key position of this work is the opposition of the traditional scientific geology of the fashionable, widespread “theory” of lithospheric plates.

It is shown that the traditional geology of more than two centuries has developed according to the laws of the evolution of the natural sciences, has developed a logical and sustainable system of concepts and terms, and has achieved great theoretical and practical successes. The concept of tectonics of plates opposed to it is an anomaly in the development of science. She was born on the basis of speculative assumptions, and not firmly established scientific facts, denies all the achievements of traditional geology and the concepts and terms applied to it and tries to replace their own artificial terminology. The main methods of its distribution are propaganda (including in the media) and strict censorship of publication of opponents.

A comprehensive analysis of all the features of the concept of tectonics of lithospheric plates leads to the only possible conclusion that this is a pseudo -assum that caused great harm to domestic and world geology.

The book may be interesting to geologists and geographers - scientists, teachers and senior students, as well as all the sciences of land.