What is "tectonic movement"

Usage examples of "tectonic movement".

Then, suddenly, the Cocos plate started moving northward with far more speed and force than any tectonic movement ever recorded.

In fact some people wanted to use the tectonic explanation again, postulating that an old crust had slid over itself onto the southern half, leaving the north to form a new skin, then all of it freezing in position when planetary cooling stopped all tectonic movement.

Mars had never had much tectonic movement, and so mountain ranges were rare.

There was no way of knowing how much tectonic movement and seismic disruption the passage would cause.

On Earth, tectonic movement had pushed up mountains every few-score million years, and then water had run down these fresh slopes, following the paths of least resistance back to the sea, carving the fractal vein patterns of watersheds everywhere.

West Antarctica had been ocean, dry land, or ice sheet, many times in the millions of years since tectonic movement had deposited that continent in that position.

Korai is a wide planet, larger than Earth, but with a cold core and no tectonic movement.

There was something about the way he did it, some hint of a mighty continent beginning a tectonic movement that would end in the fearsome creation of some unscalable mountain range, which made people stop and look.