Simulating Flash Floods in Small Rivers of the Northern Caucasus with the Use of Data of Automated Hydrometeorological Network

Water Resources - Examples are given for numerical modeling of rain-induced flash floods in mountain areas based on actual and forecast data on precipitation. The calculated hydrographs are...     

The problem of revealing the absolute kinematics of the opposite walls of faults

The existing kinematic classification of disjunctive dislocations takes into account only the relative displacements of their walls along the displacement surface in opposite directions. The topic of their absolute displacement has not yet been worked out, either in structural geology or in tectonophysics. As a result of analyzing various structural features, unconventional and often unexpected versions of their absolute displacements were worked out: the displacement of one wall along the displacement surface with an immovable second wall; displacement of both walls along the displacement surface in different (but not opposite) directions; displacement of one or both walls not along the displacement surface. It is imperative to concentrate one’s attention on the geological bodies themselves, and not on the fault boundaries between them, for thorough understanding of the faulting kinematics.