Tectonics in example sentence

And the oversight that warped Kelvin’s estimate – the possibility that fluid motion could efficiently transport heat within the Earth’s interior – turned out to be critical to understanding plate tectonics and continental drift.

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All record is gone, erased by plate tectonics and erosion.

Out of their work came the rock cycle, which combined with plate tectonics in the mid-twentieth century to give us the great molten-crusting, quaking, all-encircling theory of the Earth, from a gallstone to a 4.5 billion-year-old planet.

In today's context, it was a bunch of crap, but it was the law of geology, vertical tectonics.

But I was enraptured, and in my graduate years was the dawn of plate tectonics.

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