Tectonics in a sentence

Other celestial bodies (planets, moons) The appearance of plate tectonics on terrestrial planets is related to planetary mass, with more massive planets than Earth expected to exhibit plate tectonics.

The explanation for the prolonged duration of the Protopangea-Paleopangea supercontinent appears to be that Lid Tectonics (comparable to the tectonics operating on Mars and Venus) prevailed during Precambrian times.

There’s nothing notable about plate tectonics other than that it’s one of the more mind-bogglingly fascinating, cosmogenic concepts on the face of the earth, a face literally changing every moment but for our naturally narrowed perspective of time.

Visitors will learn about some of the earliest life on the planet, the process of fossilization and the ways in which the Earth’s landscape has changed through plate tectonics, the impact of water and more, according to the release.

A whopping 174 seismic events have been recorded by the lander’s seismometer on Mars, indicating an active plate with intriguing tectonics.

It was the same thing with plate tectonics.

Over the course of eons, through the magic of plate tectonics, that low, flat land got folded and pushed upwards more than five miles.

You don’t often get to see active tectonics anywhere but Earth, so it’s very exciting to think these faults may still be producing moonquakes,” said Nicholas Schmerr, an assistant professor of geology at the University of Maryland, in a statement.

Geologists usually place the start of plate tectonics at about 3 billion years ago, while the new hypothesis puts the process in a much younger era known as the Neoproterozoic, which occurred about 542 million to 1 billion years ago.

Not a specialist, but offhand I'd think 'plate tectonics'.

Symbolically, we are led to think that just like cloud tectonics, clouds can reshape and re-form in a variety of ways, so too can love.

The basic story line from “Cloud Tectonics” involves a young, pregnant woman at a bus stop on a night in LA featuring an “apocalyptic” rain storm.

The latest theory suggests that the root cause of Snowball Earth could have been a cracking crust at the beginning of plate tectonics.

By explaining both the zebra-like magnetic striping and the construction of the mid-ocean ridge system, the seafloor spreading hypothesis (SFS) quickly gained converts and represented another major advance in the development of the plate-tectonics theory.

Concepts close to the elements now incorporated in plate tectonics were proposed by geophysicists and geologists (both fixists and mobilists) like Vening-Meinesz, Holmes, and Umbgrove.

Evidence shows that tectonics have caused rivers to shift course suddenly and dramatically.

Firstly, studying earthquake history (e.g. historical and instrumental catalogs citation of seismicity) and tectonics citation to assess the earthquakes that could occur in a region and their characteristics and frequency of occurrence.

Geologists' embrace of plate tectonics became part of a broadening of the field from a study of rocks into a study of the Earth as a planet.

He concluded that tidal forces (the tidal lag or "friction") caused by the Earth's rotation and the forces acting upon it by the Moon are a driving force for plate tectonics.

However, some researchers remain convinced that plate tectonics is or was once active on this planet.