Vladimir Vladimirovich Belousov

Vladimir Belousov ( Russian Владимир Владимирович Белоусов * October 17 ^{. Jul} / the thirtieth October 1907 ^greg. In Moscow ; † 25. December 1990 ) was a Soviet geologist . He mainly worked in the fields of geotectonics and geodynamics . He was best known as a consistent representative of fixism in the geosciences and opponent of plate tectonics .

Belousov's first publications date from the 1930s. In 1943 he became a professor at the Moscow University of Geological Exploration, a year later head of the Department of Geodynamics of the Institute of Geophysics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences . In 1953, Vladimir Belousov was appointed professor at Moscow's Lomonosov University and a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

In the 1960s he undertook expeditions into the East African Rift Valley to support his tectonic theory .

Belousov influenced a whole generation of Soviet geoscientists through his scientific work and teaching as well as his publications.

He was an external member of the Geological Society of London .

Selected Works

General geotectonics , (Russian) 1948
Basic Problems in Geotectonics , (Russian) 1954, (English) 1962 (Basic Problems in Geotectonics, McGraw Hill)

Geotectonics , (Russian) 1976, (English Geotectonics , Springer Verlag 1980)

Continental endogenous regimes , Moscow, Mir 1981 (English translation)

Endogenic regimes and the evolution of the tectonosphere , in S. Chatterjee, N. Hotton (editors) New Concepts in Global Tectonics , Lubbock, Texas Tech University Press 1992

with EM Ruditch Island arcs in the development of the earth's structure (especially in the region of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk) , Journal of Geology, Volume 69, 1961, pp. 647-658

Certain trends in present-day geosciences , in A. Barto-Kyriakidis (editor) Critical Aspects of the Plate Tectonics Theory , Athens, Theophrastus Publications, 1990, Volume 1, pp. 3-15

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ for example Beloussov Against the hypothesis of ocean-floor spreading , Tectonophysics, Volume 9, 1970, pp. 489-511

personal data
SURNAME	Belousov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Белоусов, Владимир Владимирович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian geoscientist, representative of fixism
DATE OF BIRTH	October 30, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow
DATE OF DEATH	December 25, 1990
Place of death	Moscow

[1] r example Beloussov Against the hypothesis of ocean-floor spreading , Tectonophysics, Volume 9, 1970, pp. 489-511