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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Boris I. Vasiliev
| fields = Geology, Marine geology
| nationality = Russian
| known_for = Alternative theories of the origin of the Pacific Ocean; New Concepts in Global Tectonics
}}

'''Boris I. Vasiliev''' (also transliterated Vasileiv) is a Russian marine geologist known for his research on the geological structure and origin of the Pacific Ocean and for his association with the New Concepts in Global Tectonics (NCGT) group, a community that develops alternatives to plate-tectonic theory. He is listed in ''[[The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]]''.

==Work==
Vasiliev has published on the structure and development of the Pacific Ocean floor over several decades, including the 1989 work "Questions of the structure and development of the Pacific Ocean floor" and a later monograph, ''Geological Structure and Origin of the Pacific Ocean'' (a Japanese-language edition appeared in 2017). His research argues that features of the ocean floor point to an origin different from that assumed by the standard seafloor-spreading model of plate tectonics.

His papers have appeared in the ''NCGT Journal'' (and its predecessor, the ''NCGT Newsletter''), an international forum founded following a symposium on alternative theories to plate tectonics. Within that forum Vasiliev's work is grouped with expanding-Earth and non-plate-tectonic perspectives, which lie outside the geological mainstream.

==External links==
* [http://www.ncgt.org New Concepts in Global Tectonics]

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