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UDC 551.21:551.33

https://doi.org/10.26516/2541-9641.2026.1.126

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At the Origins of Rifting Theory (Letters of E.E. Milanovsky from Iceland, 1972–73)

T.Yu. Tveritinova^1,2, A.I. Gushchin¹

¹Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

²Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Abstract. This paper covers the work on the Geodynamic Project conducted in Iceland by E.E. Milanovsky and N.A. Logatchev under the scientific supervision of V.V. Belousov from 1971 to 1973. Sketches and photographs of volcanic and glacial relief are provided (E.E. Milanovsky's archive).

Keywords: Iceland, rifting, history of geology.

References

Belousov V.V., Milanovsky E.E. On the tectonics and tectonic position of Iceland // Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Naturalists. Geological series. 1975. Vol. 50, Issue 3. P. 81–98.

Iceland and the Mid-Ocean Ridge: Geomorphology. Tectonics. Moscow: Nauka, 1979. 207 p.

Milanovsky E.E. Academician Nikolai Logatchev – My friend and like-minded person / Nikolai Alekseevich Logatchev. Novosibirsk: Publishing House of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2007. P. 44–61.

Trifonov V.G. The phenomenon of the geologist / Essays on the history of geological knowledge (series founded in 1953 at the USSR Institute of Geological Sciences). Issue 35. Moscow: GEOS Publishing House, 2025. 219 p.

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