noun
definition
The study of crustal plates and other large-scale structural features of the Earth.
definition
The science and art of assembling, shaping, or ornamenting materials in construction.
Examples of tectonics in a Sentence
The pressure of the vise is from plate movement or plate tectonics.
Through understanding plate tectonics, we have banished much of the mysticism surrounding natural hazards.
Another third comprise a development of geological skills including sedimentology, structural geology and plate tectonics.
After formation is complete, the surfaces of planets continue to be modified by surface processes including tectonics and volcanism.
The Indian Ocean tsunami (tho caused by earth tectonics) showed how vulnerable the developing world is to massive natural disasters.
The aim is to assess the structural geometries and hence the mechanisms of continental extensional tectonics.
For deformations in the upper continental crust, high quality data may be extracted from geomorphological studies of active tectonics.
This synoptic coverage of global tectonics is for the past 1 million years.
However, relatively few studies have attempted to unravel the local and regional scale tectonics of Iran.
During the Mesozoic, most of central and western Thailand was affected by large, left lateral wrench faults and compressional tectonics.
Studies of the Indo-Asian collision have produced two contrasting views of continental tectonics.
A study of the world's major plates gives insight into recent finding about the action of plate tectonics.
A study of the world 's major plates gives insight into recent finding about the action of plate tectonics.
That was no way God 's will, that was just the Earth 's tectonics messing up.
The lecture also seeks to provide answers to questions such as, how quickly plates move and what drives plate tectonics?
That was no way God's will, that was just the earth's tectonics messing up.