Self-organized lithosphere: on the fundamentals of a new geological paradigm

The geological history of the Earth is an indomitable aspiration of its lithosphere structures (undoubtedly, as well as the rest geospheres, which are inaccessible to observation) for differentiation and ordering, i.e. for self-organization. However till now, geology and geological analysis show that in the course of evolution systems aspire to equilibrium states and supposedly accumulate deformations. The deformations, as links of the supposed evolution, become the principal object of investigations. A result of such an ideal study is a reconstruction of dynamic conditions, under which systems began a calculation of accumulated deformations, successively approaching the observed pattern. In other words, it is necessary to reconstruct the initial point of the dynamic trajectory according to the final result. At present the overwhelming majority of geologists are convinced that if we cannot deduce the properties of the object under study from the properties of its elements, the reason for this is our poor knowledge of these elements properties or peculiarities of their pairwise interactions. <...>