APPLICATIONS OF PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF LIMITED DEFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS TO PALAEOGEOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION

It is possible to restore the distorted palaeogeographic outline and to reveal the entire processes including the depression and filling of an ancient sedimentary basin and palaeoecologic evolution by means of the adjustment of the location of the measured sections and the observed sites of sedimentary facies and palaeoecology according to the principles and methods proposed by the author in this paper. The palaeogeographic reconstruction is believed to have no bearings on the mechanism for tectonic deformation. However, the potential genesis of the tectonic deformation may be identified with the aid of the tentative methods to inverse tectonically deformed sequences.