Alexander S. Svarichevsky
the Laboratory of Geomorphology and Tectonics
Division of Geology and Geophysics
V.I.Ili'chev Pacific Oceanological Institute
 

regularities of the bottom topography in the Pacific Ocean and its marginal seas (the Bering Sea, Okhotsk Sea, Philippine Sea, etc.).
Genetic interpretation of the bottom topography and ascertaining of the relief-forming processes with the help of the morphostructural analysis and instrumental methods of observation (echo-sounding, seismic profiling, etc.).
Elaboration of principles for the geomorphological mapping of the deep-water areas with regard to the other one, the accumulative one (as compared to the land), not the denudational predominant orientation of the exogenic relief-forming processes on the sea floor.
Establishment of the geomorphological data base.
Terminology of the geomorphological objects on the sea floor.

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