Editing Tectonophysics (section)

==History==
{{See also|Timeline of the development of tectonophysics|Continental drift#History}}
Tectonophysics was adopted as the name of a new section of AGU on April 19, 1940, at AGU's 21st Annual Meeting. According to the AGU website (https://tectonophysics.agu.org/agu-100/section-history/), using the words from Norman Bowen, the main goal of the tectonophysics section was to “designate this new borderline field between geophysics, physics and geology … for the solution of problems of tectonics.” Consequently, the claim below that the term was defined in 1954 by Gzolvskii is clearly incorrect. Since 1940 members of AGU had been presenting papers at AGU meetings, the contents of which defined the meaning of the field.

Tectonophysics was defined as a field in 1954 when Mikhail Vladimirovich Gzovskii published three papers in the journal ''Izvestiya Akad. Nauk SSSR, Sireya Geofizicheskaya'': "On the tasks and content of tectonophysics", "Tectonic stress fields", and "Modeling of tectonic stress fields". He defined the main goals of tectonophysical research to be study of the mechanisms of [[fold (geology)|folding]] and [[faulting]] as well as large structural units of the [[Earth's crust]]. He later created the Laboratory of Tectonophysics at the Institute of Physics of the Earth, [[Academy of Sciences of the USSR]], Moscow.<ref name=
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