41 BELOUSOV^ 



Office: Lebedev Institute of Physics of USSR Academy of 



Sciences 

 Leninskii Prospekt, 53 

 Moscow, USSR 



BELQUSQV, VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH (Geologist) 



V. V. Belousov was born October 30, 1907. In 1943 he be- 

 came Chief of the Laboratory on Theoretical Geotectonics and 

 on Geodynamics of the USSR Academy of Sciences Institute of 

 Terrestrial Geophysics. Since 1953, he has been a professor at 

 Moscow University. In 1953, he was elected to the U.S.S.R. 

 Academy of Sciences as a Corresponding Member. In 1960 he 

 was elected President of the International Union of Geodesy and 

 Geophysics for the term 1960-1963. As of 1961, Belousov was 

 Chairman of the Soviet Geophysical Committee. 



Belousov has worked in tectonics and tectono-physics. He 

 developed new methods of studying history of oscillatory motion 

 of the earth's crust and elucidated the history of geological de- 

 velopment in the Greater Caucasus and the Russian platform. 

 In 1942 he advanced, and in 1951 and 1960 he developed the 

 hypothesis that a prolonged process of differentiation of the 

 earth's mass with a gradual division according to its density 

 took place as a main internal process influencing the tectonic 

 development of the earth's crust. 



Belousov visited the United States to attend the American 

 Geological Society meetings in St. Louis, Missouri, in November 

 1958, and the Electric Power Delegation at Westinghouse Fermi 

 Plant in October 1959. 

 Bibliography: 



Outline of the Geochemistry of Natural Gases. Leningrad: 

 1937. 



Greater Caucasus, Part 1-3. Leningrad-Moscow: 1938-40. 

 Migration of radioelements and development of the structure 

 of the earth. Izvest. Akad. Nauk. S.S.S.R., Geogr. and Geofiz. 

 Ser., 1942, #6; 1943, #3. 



Facies and magnitudes of sedimentary thicknesses of Euro- 

 pean U.S.S.R. Works of the Institute of Geological Sciences 

 of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, 1944, #76. 

 General Geotectonics. Moscow-Leningrad: 1948. 

 Basic Problems in Geotectonics. Moscow: 1954. 2nd ed. 

 1962. 



Development of the earth and tectogenesis. Journ. Geophys. 

 Res. 65, #12, 1960. 



