 He also contributed to the discovery of many oil deposits in the Urals and developed an effective method for finding them.Kamaletdinov theorized that the horizontal movements of tectonic plates played a key role in the structure and development of the Earth's crust.In 1971, he and R.A. Kamaletdinov discovered that the formation of foredeeps was associated with the isostatic dip edge of the continental platform under the weight of orogenic structures.