BLOCK AND BLOCK TECTONICS

On the basis of block concept and its use in tectonic division, and according to the integrated geology-geophysics ideology of LIU Guangding and his research achievements on China geotectonic evolutionary history, we tried to conclude and summarize his geotectonic ideology and named it "Block Tectonics". It is pointed that "Block Tectonics" is a practical application to China and it is the development of "Plate Tectonics" under the guidance of global tectonic ideology with activity theory as the connotation.