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Neotectonics, a subdiscipline of tectonics, is the study of the motions and deformations of Earth's crust (geological and geomorphological processes) that are current or recent in geologic time.〔"Encyclopedia of Coastal Science" (2005), Springer, ISBN 978-1-4020-1903-6, Chapter 1: "Tectonics and Neotectonics" 〕 The term may also refer to the motions/deformations in question themselves. Geologists refer to the corresponding time-frame as the neotectonic period, and to the preceding time as the palaeotectonic period. Vladimir Obruchev coined the term ''neotectonics'' in his 1948 article,〔V.A. Obruchev (1948). "Osnovnye cherty kinetiki i plastiki neotektonik". ''Izv. Akad. Nauk, Ser. Geol.'', 5: 13–24,〕 defining the field as "recent tectonic movements occurred in the upper part of Tertiary (Neogene) and in the Quaternary, which played an essential role in the origin of the contemporary topography". Since then geologists have disagreed as to how far back to date "geologically recent" time, with the common meaning being that neotectonics is the youngest, not yet finished stage in Earth tectonics. Some authors consider neotectonics to be basically synonymous with "active tectonics", while others date the start of the neotectonic period from the middle Miocene. A general agreement has started to emerge that the actual time-frame may be individual for each geological environment and it must be set back in time sufficiently far to fully understand the current tectonic activity.〔Eduard A. Koster (2005) "The Physical Geography of Western Europe", ISBN 0-19-927775-3, (Ch. 2: Neotectonics ) 〕 In 1989 Spyros B. Pavlides suggested the definition:
Many researchers have accepted this approach.〔 The Center for Neotectonic Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title= Center for Neotectonic Studies ) 〕 defines neotectonics as
One source of different interpretations for a region stems from the fact that changes in different tectonic plates of the region may occur at different times, giving rise to the notion of the "transitional time", during which both palaeotectonic and neotectonic features coexist. For example, for central/northern Europe, the transitional period stretches from the middle early Miocene to the Miocene-Pliocene boundary.〔 A. Becker, " An attempt to define a "neotectonic period" for central and northern Europe", International Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 82, Number 1, 1993 〕 ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neotectonics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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