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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Ocean – 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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    [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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • presence of Hadean oceans are thought to trigger plate tectonics. Subduction due to plate tectonics would have removed carbonate from the early oceans, contributing...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • surge tectonics which envisage flows through the mantle as major driving forces of Plate Tectonics. Van Bemmelen, R.W. (1976); Plate Tectonics and the...
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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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    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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    hypothesis was suggested historically, since the recognition of plate tectonics during the mid 20th century, scientific consensus has rejected the idea...
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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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  • A tectonic weapon is a hypothetical device or system which could trigger earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or other seismic events in specified locations...
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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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    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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    Indonesia is located between two major tectonic plates, the Australian Plate and the newly-separated Sunda Plate. The tectonics of Indonesia are very complex,...
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