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The word geotectonics is derived from two Greek words gê—earth, and tectonicon—to build. It consequently means literally the science of the Earth’s structure, but such a definition is too wide since it embraces, in essence, almost, the whole of geology. We need to give more precision to just what is the true content of geotectonics.
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Beloussov, V.V. (1980). The Content of Geotectonics. In: Geotectonics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67176-0_1
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