UNDATION THEORY.

Abstract

The undation theory gives a synthesis of the terrestrial evolution, uniting geological, geophysical, and geochemical data into a comprehensive model. It accepts the major views of the new global tectonics (plate tectonics) and gives full attention to the geochemical evolution of the planet. In this way the undation theory strives for a complete integration of the Earth Sciences into the general spectre of the Sciences of Nature. This model of terrestrial evolution has been developed more or less systematically in the course of half a century by means of the ″prognosis-diagnosis method of verification″ . Available basic facts of observation have been arranged into tentative hypotheses of interrelations, and the rational consequences of that supposition are checked by independent data. The general and special features of the undation theory represent a highly adaptive and apparently functionally correct model of the global evolution. Its expectations (prognoses) are in agreement with the great fund of basic facts of observation (diagnostic facts). Refs.