Study of Earth's shifting crust

Usage examples of tectonics.

I thought there might be plate tectonics on Mars, when close-up spacecraft observations now show hardly a hint of plate tectonics.

Harold Jeffreys, strenuously insisted that plate tectonics was a physical impossibility, just as it had in the first edition way back in 1924.

It also gave us plate tectonics, which continually renews and rumples the surface.

Once again, we may be indebted to tectonics for allowing us to be here.

The wide distribution of dicynodonts supports the theory of plate tectonics and is evidence of the existence of a single land mass before the plates bearing the modern continents moved apart.

This colossal reorganization, driven by plate tectonics, continues today with unrelenting force.

Now he remembered everything: plate tectonics and subduction zones, Archimedes Principle, the thermal conductivity of two percent hydrox.

Earthquakes are classic chaotic systems, and the tectonics around here change by the minute.

But, thanks to the water, plate tectonics operated, and much of the carbon dioxide was kept locked up in the carbonate rocks, which were periodically subducted into the mantle, just as on Earth.

It changed in sped-up corrasion, in the buckling of tectonics at some psychotic rate as if time was untethered from its rules.

That idea never washed with me, since to get the 26-million-year periodicity you had to use the late Ordovician dyings, which were obviously just the result of plate tectonics moving the supercontinent Gondwanaland over the south pole, causing an ice age.

Until the principle of continental drift, or plate tectonics, was established and proved, one widely held explanation for the similarity of terrestrial life-forms on what today are distant continents was that animals had migrated over incredibly long land bridges.

In one of the most rapid and complete revolutions science has known, the formerly controversial theory of 'continental drift' has now become universally accepted under the name of plate tectonics.

I want to develop some ideas about the use of active elements to correct dynamic loads - winds, earthquakes, and so forth - I'm still consultant for General Tectonics.

Only when the evidence of sea-floor spreading became undeniable did geologists begin to accept the ideas of plate tectonics, which today underpin almost all serious geomorphological work.