What is "crustal"

Usage examples of "crustal".

Accumulated crustal tensions are relieved by a series of controlled minor quakes released by nucleonic explosives.

The rim armaments were still lancing away at the crustal countermeasures, but now the spore discharges were coming from tens of kilometres away, and it was clear that no immediate threat was posed, unless the crust was capable of improbably rapid regeneration.

Nothing as spectacular as the Caledonian diatreme, thank God, but enough all-around crustal instability to keep us hopping.

The crustal displacement theory envisages the possibility of periodic displacements of the entire crust in one piece.

Similarly, but on a lesser scale -- although still very big -- the Californian earthquakes of San Francisco and Owens Valley were due to crustal movement and not to volcanoes.

The ocean was deeper and darker here than in the region only fifty kilometers to the east, where strings of metal-mounds grew in the hilly shallows along the edges of a thin crustal plate.

If we cannot assume crustal shifts, we must find some other way to explain why the ice-caps appear to have reached sea level within the tropics on three continents: Asia, Africa and Australia.

Everything that was once Southeast Asia had disappeared, subducted miles deep beneath crustal plates overthrusting from the south, and from what could be made of the acoustic patterns being sent back from seismic packs scattered about the surface, it was still sinking.

Crustal strain energy is being released at a rate I've never experienced.