tectonics

How To Use tectonics In A Sentence

• The occurrence of these felsic extrusive igneous rocks potentially provides key information on the complex interplay of magmatism and tectonics.
• Moreover, holistic method has proved useful in the hard sciences, for example in the geological theory of plate tectonics.
• Yet with the advent of plate tectonics, this model had to evolve.
• Once viewed as a relic, continental drift and seafloor spreading evolved into the modern concept of plate tectonics.
• Plate tectonics as a field of study rests on the firm establishment of two essential discoveries.
• The underlying sedimentary rocks accumulated in pulses of sedimentation in a depositional basin that developed in response to compressional tectonics in the Cape Fold belt, to the south and south-east, which was the area of provenance for much of the Karoo Supergroup. UKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa
• In other parts of the Selendi and Usak-Gure basins, the group contains only tilted sedimentary units due to the extensional tectonics in the region.
• Any plate tectonics model of the Andes must in fact account for the uplift essentially in terms of vertical tectonics.
• He could tell; the ridges that defined the tectonics of his delts were a little less precise, the knobs that represented his abs a little less jagged, the bulge of his veins a little less prominent. Dead Zero
• The identification of the ocean _ ridge basalt is important understanding regional tectonics and its evolution.