tectonic
Example Sentences
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Each configuration seems contingent, not fixed, as if in a process of perpetual transition driven by some invisible force—tectonic restlessness or a growth hormone, say.
However, our drilling efforts recovered the first cores of this material after it has spent tens of millions of years being rafted across the seafloor as Earth's tectonic plates spread apart.
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These events were linked to the Lee-Lincoln fault, a tectonic feature that cuts through the valley floor.
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Subduction: A tectonic process in which one piece of Earth's crust sinks beneath another and moves downward into the mantle.
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Regular earthquakes happen when stresses that accumulate as tectonic plates grind together over centuries or millennia are suddenly released, creating intense shaking that lasts only seconds.
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