tectonics in English

noun
1
large-scale processes affecting the structure of the earth's crust.
These data clearly demonstrate that parts of the Scottish basement underwent major thick-skinned tectonics during the Grenvillian orogeny.

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1. Plate Tectonics Articles and maps about plate tectonics and the interior of Earth

2. Therefore, plate tectonics is not entirely applied to continental tectonics as well.

3. Or if geologists didn't talk about plate tectonics.

4. 16 Plate tectonics is not the same as continental drift.

5. Why this elaborate analogy with plate tectonics and continental drift?

6. Beyond Plate Tectonics: What Do We Do in Structural Geology?

7. Magnetic profiling for the reconstruction of crustal ages and plate tectonics;

8. Plate tectonics created heat and pressure, that produced rock lighter than the ocean floor.

9. The activity in Erta Ale's lava lake is an excellent model for Earth's plate tectonics.

10. General Geology - Articles about geysers, maars, deltas, rifts, salt domes, water, and much more! Plate Tectonics

11. Geologists describe the motion of the plates and the consequences of such motion as plate tectonics.

12. Tyson then explains on the nature of plate tectonics that would shape the landmasses of the world.

13. 16 The extensional system is a "horizontal layered" thin-skinned tectonics at the crustal scale.

14. The Atmosphere, the Ocean and Environmental Change (GG 140)Plate tectonics and ocean Bathymetry are discussed

15. The disjonctive deformations of the vorland being transmitted into the superstructure have allowed the identification of the ruptural tectonics.

16. The "Amisk collage" formed in two major magmatic periods that were separated by an interval of intraoceanic accretionary tectonics.

17. The oldest member disappearing by way of the Plate Tectonics cycle is early-Cretaceous (145 to 137 million years ago).

18. Plate tectonics, the process of continents drifting together and rifting apart, causes the formation of many large Bays.

19. Land bridges were commonly invoked to explain biogeographical distribution patterns before the development and acceptance of plate tectonics.

20. ‘Several Cytherean impact craters display impact-induced lava flows, fractures and tectonics related to high-temperature environment.’ ‘The Cytherean atmospheric …

21. ‘Several Cytherean impact craters display impact-induced lava flows, fractures and tectonics related to high-temperature environment.’ ‘The Cytherean atmospheric …

22. Synonyms: Architectonics; tectonics Hypernyms ("Architectonics" is a kind of): science; scientific discipline (a particular branch of scientific knowledge)

23. It was formed on the "Kenyan Dome" a geographical upwelling created by the interactions of three major tectonics: the Arabian, Nubian, and Somalian plates.

24. 10 The main A-type subduction fault and large scale thin-skinned tectonics clearly reveal that the Yangtze Plate subsides towards Dabie orogenic belt.

25. At Convergent boundaries that involve two continental plates, the plate tectonics is a bit more complex than in the other two types of Convergent boundaries

26. The Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks conducts research into space physics and aeronomy; atmospheric sciences; snow, ice, and permafrost; seismology; volcanology; and tectonics and sedimentation.

27. Some basic questions about Archean plate tectonics can be addressed by examining accretionary Archean margins, in particular fault zones with significant strike-slip components on the Canadian Shield.

28. 22 The quantitative research of geomorphologic evolution in bedrock channel fluvial landscape plays a significant role in the discussion of the relationship among tectonics, climate, and surface process.

29. At the dawn of plate tectonics the concept of a weak Asthenosphere layer sandwiched between strong overlying plates and more viscous underlying mantle was widely accepted, albeit vaguely defined

30. TYPES OF Crustal MATERIAL It is important to keep in mind when discussing plate tectonics that the crust of the Earth is composed of two basic types of Crustal material

31. When dating and tracking the evolution of oceanic crust, plate tectonics research usually relies on a combination of knowledge about periods when the polarity of the planet's geomagnetic field was reversed, alongside magnetic anomalies.

32. This new vision of accretionary and translational tectonics in Mexico has profound implications for the study of tectogenesis in the southern Cordillera as well as for the interpretation of Mexico's vast natural resources.

33. Craton formation Some researchers have concluded that it requires a "uniquely Archean process involving high-degree melting at depth" to make Archean SCLM, and that modern plate tectonics do not apply to its formation

34. The first widespread inception of this duality at 2.71–2.65 Ga in the Superior and Slave Provinces, Canada, and in India and Australia, may reflect one of the first supercontinent aggregations involving accretionary, “Cordilleran style” tectonics.

35. As regards tectonics, the principal consequences of such a geological structure are fragmentation of the rocks, leading to the formation of springs, and stable soils with thick alluvial deposits, encouraging the accumulation of infiltration water on the water table

36. As regards tectonics, the principal consequences of such a geological structure are fragmentation of the rocks, leading to the formation of springs, and stable soils with thick alluvial deposits, encouraging the accumulation of infiltration water on the water table.

37. 17 Some experts argue that the causes of coastal erosion are not so much global climatic change and an absolute elevation of the sea, but rather land subsidence driven by local tectonics (and aggravated by local human-induced factors – see below).

38. ‘A variety of authors have used equation to study the effect of continental breakup and collision on Biocenosis.’ ‘Because continental breakup and collision are accompanied by a large change in area, some authors have considered equation to describe the effect of tectonics on Biocenosis.’

39. The Tripoli-Tibesti zone was one of uplift and strongly tensional tectonics in the late Mesozoic and early Cainozoic, and at this time may have been a line of potential lithospheric rifting, but a period of quiescence followed and resurgence of activity in the late Cainozoic produced weaker tensional structures and more strongly alkaline basic

40. The "Crustal Geophysics" research group studies the tectonics and geodynamics of the lithosphere, typically focusing on continental lithosphere that is currently or recently deforming and evolving.We use controlled-source reflection and refraction seismology on land and at sea, and a wide range of passive seismological analyses (shear-wave splitting, receiver function analysis, surface-wave