 According to the theory, thrusts are the major structural elements of the stone shell of Earth, and their movements cause major geological processes like orogeny, folding, sedimentation, magmatism, metamorphism, seismicity, and the formation of mineral resources like oil, gas, metal ores, and diamonds.This theory allows scientists to explain geological phenomena and processes through cause-and-effect relationships.It was a major scientific achievement of modern Russian geology, as well as the first universal theory on a global scale created by Russian geologists.