The Formation of Planetary Mountain Ranges and Faults

In the previous article <a href="https://habr.com/ru/post/562630/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Spatial Spectra and Fractality of Relief, Gravity Force, and Images</a>, we have already discussed the fractality of the Earth’s relief and gravity force field, and demonstrated how it arises in the relatively thin and brittle Earth’s crust with a thickness of 5 km under the oceans and up to 100–150 km under continents. We also calculated that beneath the crust lies an elastic layer, meaning that the upper fractal scale is limited to about 200 km. However, we observe faults and planetary-scale mountain ranges that span seas and oceans. Obviously, planetary structures with a scale of tens of thousands of kilometers cannot be explained by phenomena in the Earth’s crust at scales of tens to hundreds of kilometers, even though all these structures are self-similar, i.e., fractal. Thus, it is precisely the planetary structures that are primary and are reproduced on smaller scales during tectonic processes due to the brittleness of the Earth’s crust. Today, we will talk about where these primary structures came from, or who and how “broke” the Earth. <a href="https://medium.com/@pechnikov/the-formation-of-planetary-mountain-ranges-and-faults-49b8e4d91752">Click Here</a>