present. Thrust tectonics is associated with the shortening and thickening of the crust, or the lithosphere. This type of tectonics is found at zones...

interactive plate-tectonic reconstructions Outline of plate tectonics – Hierarchical outline list of articles related to plate tectonics List of submarine...

Extensional tectonics is concerned with the structures formed by, and the tectonic processes associated with, the stretching of a planetary body's crust...

Lid tectonics, commonly thought of as stagnant lid tectonics or single lid tectonics, is the type of tectonics that is believed to exist on several silicate...

Ocean – Salt water covering most of Earth Plate tectonics – Movement of Earth's lithosphere List of tectonic plate interactions – Types of plate boundaries...

[citation needed] Active tectonics will increase the likelihood of salt structures developing. In the case of extensional tectonics, faulting will both reduce...

Indenter tectonics, also known as escape tectonics, is a branch of strike-slip tectonics that involves the collision and deformation of two continental...

Tectonics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of geology focusing on tectonics. It is published by the American Geophysical Union in collaboration with...

Strike-slip tectonics or wrench tectonics is a type of tectonics that is dominated by lateral (horizontal) movements within the Earth's crust (and lithosphere)...

"Cloud Tectonics"". Yale Daily News. Archived from the original on 2016-02-13. Retrieved 2021-08-28. Braunagel, Don (1995-07-03). "Cloud Tectonics". Variety...

The Plate Tectonics Revolution was the scientific and cultural change which developed from the acceptance of the plate tectonics theory. The event was...

York, Springer-Verlag, pp 1-19. Lajoie, K.R., 1986, Coastal Tectonics, in Active Tectonics: studies in geophysics: Washington, D.C., National Academy Press...

presence of Hadean oceans are thought to trigger plate tectonics. Subduction due to plate tectonics would have removed carbonate from the early oceans, contributing...

the Earth and the convecting mantle is called plate tectonics. The development of plate tectonics has provided a physical basis for many observations...

This is a list of articles related to plate tectonics and tectonic plates. Plate tectonics (from Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós) 'pertaining...

Thrust tectonics or contractional tectonics is concerned with the structures formed by, and the tectonic processes associated with, the shortening and...

as a fallback Vertical displacement – Vertical shift of land in plate tectonics "USGS: Magnitude 8 and Greater Earthquakes Since 1900". Archived from...

The Centenal Cycle, which also included Null States (2017) and State Tectonics (2018), which won a Prometheus Award in 2019. Older holds an undergraduate...

throughout the study of tectonics on Mars. In general, Mars lacks unambiguous evidence that terrestrial-style plate tectonics has shaped its surface....

continents by increase in the volume of Earth. With the recognition of plate tectonics in 20th century, the idea has been abandoned. In 1834, during the second...

Japan Median Tectonic Line (中央構造線, Chūō Kōzō Sen), also Median Tectonic Line (MTL), is Japan's longest fault system. The MTL begins near Ibaraki Prefecture...

mechanisms of plate tectonics on icy moons, particularly Earth-like plate tectonics are not widely agreed upon or well understood. Plate tectonics on Earth is...

structural basin is a large-scale structural formation of rock strata formed by tectonic warping (folding) of previously flat-lying strata into a syncline fold...

Tectonic uplift is the geologic uplift of Earth's surface that is attributed to plate tectonics. While isostatic response is important, an increase in...

have been separated from the sea by the tectonic uplift of the sea floor above the ocean level. Often, the tectonic action of crustal extension has created...

Sattler, Helen Roney (1995). Our patchwork planet : the story of plate tectonics. Maestro, Giulio (1st ed.). New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books. ISBN 0-688-09312-4...

The interaction between erosion and tectonics has been a topic of debate since the early 1990s. While the tectonic effects on surface processes such as...

Iceland plume or secondary processes of lithospheric extension from plate tectonics. Rocks from the North Atlantic Igneous Province have been found in Greenland...

Asian oceanic trenches. The oldest part disappearing by way of the plate tectonics cycle is early-Cretaceous (145 to 137 million years ago). The Pacific...

surge tectonics which envisage flows through the mantle as major driving forces of Plate Tectonics. Van Bemmelen, R.W. (1976); Plate Tectonics and the...