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US
/daɪˈæstɹəˌfɪzəm/
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NOUN
- the process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's crust
How To Use diastrophism In A Sentence
- Possibly diastrophism broke the original continent into small islands which would not support so large an animal population; or the drying-out may have progressed still further. The Earth Book of Stormgate