present. Thrust tectonics is associated with the shortening and thickening of the crust, or the lithosphere. This type of tectonics is found at zones...
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interactive plate-tectonic reconstructions Outline of plate tectonics – Hierarchical outline list of articles related to plate tectonics List of submarine...
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The Plate Tectonics Revolution was the scientific and cultural change which developed from the acceptance of the plate tectonics theory. The event was...
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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...
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Body of salt water covering most of Earth Plate tectonics – Movement of Earth's lithosphere List of tectonic plate interactions – Types of plate boundaries...
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Extensional tectonics is concerned with the structures formed by, and the tectonic processes associated with, the stretching of a planetary body's crust...
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"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...
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Tectonics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of geology focusing on tectonics. It is published by the American Geophysical Union in collaboration with...
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Expanding Earth (redirect from Expansion tectonics)
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...
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[citation needed] Active tectonics will increase the likelihood of salt structures developing. In the case of extensional tectonics, faulting will both reduce...
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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)...
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throughout the study of tectonics on Mars. In general, Mars lacks unambiguous evidence that terrestrial-style plate tectonics has shaped its surface....
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Volcano tectonics is a scientific field that uses the techniques and methods of structural geology, tectonics, and physics to analyse and interpret physical...
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Rare Earth hypothesis (section Plate tectonics)
that tectonic subduction zones require the lubrication of oceans of water. Plate tectonics also provide a means of biochemical cycling. Plate tectonics and...
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Indenter tectonics, also known as escape tectonics, is a branch of strike-slip tectonics that involves the collision and deformation of two continental...
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York, Springer-Verlag, pp 1-19. Lajoie, K.R., 1986, Coastal Tectonics, in Active Tectonics: studies in geophysics: Washington, D.C., National Academy Press...
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Geology (section Plate tectonics)
the Earth and the convecting mantle is called plate tectonics. The development of plate tectonics has provided a physical basis for many observations...
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Hadean (section Plate tectonics)
of Hadean oceans is thought to have triggered plate tectonics. Subduction due to plate tectonics would have removed carbonate from the early oceans, contributing...
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Thrust tectonics or contractional tectonics is concerned with the structures formed by, and the tectonic processes associated with, the shortening and...
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Earthquake (redirect from Tectonic earthquake)
as a fallback Vertical displacement – Vertical shift of land in plate tectonics "USGS: Magnitude 8 and Greater Earthquakes Since 1900". Archived from...
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This is a list of articles related to plate tectonics and tectonic plates. Plate tectonics (from Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós) 'pertaining...
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Malka Older (redirect from State Tectonics)
The Centenal Cycle, which also included Null States (2017) and State Tectonics (2018), which won a Prometheus Award in 2019. Older holds an undergraduate...
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Pacific Plate (redirect from Pacific tectonic plate)
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...
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; Wheeler, Paul J. (August 1999). "Late Cenozoic tectonics of the Kepingtage Thrust Zone". Tectonics. 18 (4): 639–654. Bibcode:1999Tecto..18..639A. doi:10...
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Tectonic uplift is the geologic uplift of Earth's surface that is attributed to plate tectonics. While isostatic response is important, an increase in...
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Rock cycle (section Plate tectonics)
under a continent. Due to the driving forces of the rock cycle, plate tectonics and the water cycle, rocks do not remain in equilibrium and change as...
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Continental drift (category Plate tectonics)
supporting plate tectonics which encompassed and superseded continental drift with the article "Seismology and the New Global Tectonics", published in 1968...
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Accretion (geology) (redirect from Docking (tectonics))
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...
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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...
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Lake (redirect from Tectonic lakes)
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...
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