Drifting and submeridional compression of the continental and oceanic lithosphere, both with the northward vector (Figure 1) are revealed at the background of various directions of horizontal displacement combined with deformations of horizontal extension, compression and shear of the lithosphere (Figures 7-14). Among various structural forms and their paragenezises, indicators of such compression, the north vergence thrusts play the leading role (Figures 15-17, 19, and 22-24). This process was discontinuous, manifested discretely in time, and superimposed on processes of collisional orogenesis and platform deformations of the continental lithosphere and accretion of the oceanic lithosphere in spreading zones. Three main stages of submeridional compression of the oceanic lithosphere are distinguished as follows: Late Jurassic-Late Cretaceous, Late Miocene, and the contemporary stages. Based on the concept of balanced tectonic flow in the Earth's body, a model of meridional convection (Figure 25) is proposed. In this case, meridional convection is considered as an integral element of the overglobal convective geodynamic system of the largest-scale rank, which also includes the western component of the lithosphere drift (Figure 6) and the Earth's 'wrenching'. At the background of this system, geodynamic systems of smaller scale ranks are functioning (Table 1; Figures 2, and 3). The latters are responsible for the periodic creation and break-up of supercontinents, plate tectonics and regional geodynamical processes; they also produce the 'structural background' , in the presence of which it is challenging to reveal the above mentioned submeridional compression structures. Formation of such structures is caused by the upper horizontal flow of meridional convection. Meridional convection occurs due to drifting of the Earth core towards the North Pole (which is detected by a number of independent methods) and resistance of the mantle to drifting (Figures 26, and 27). By comparing the equations that describe the model of the northern drift of the lithosphere and the model of the core drift towards the North Pole, it is possible to establish a quantitative 'bridge' between the structures of meridional compression of the lithosphere and the core drifting structures.

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