REGIONAL TECTONIC AND PALEOMAGNETIC ARGUMENTS FOR THE STABLE POSITION OF CONTINENTS AT THE EARTH’S SURFACE

V. S. Staroseltsev

Siberian Research Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineral Resources, Novosibirsk, Russia

The author has analysed geological and physical arguments against the palinspastic reconstructions proposed by the advocates of the plate tectonics and based on the change in the location and sign of the Earth’s magnetic poles. This view is shared by not all the researchers. In particular, these reconstructions are in conflict with the system of transregional lineaments marked out in 1957 and updated by the author in 1997–2008, as well as the conjunction in the orientation of the long axes of the ellipsoid of the Devonian deformations in the Cambrian deposits of the Altai-Sayan folded region, trending to the paleomagnetic Cambrian pole. The notion of the magnetic poles inversion that ensues from the magnetism of the underlying deposits is also unsustainable, which can be experimentally proven.

Key words: arguments against palinspastic reconstructions, stability of magnetic poles, transregional lineaments, Devonian deformations in the Cambrian deposits, Cambrian paleomagnetism.

DOI 10.20403/2078-0575-2017-2-127-131

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