Tectonics
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The reason there is a billion-year gap in our geological understanding is because of plate
tectonics
, The crust of the Earth has been recycled.
More example sentences with word tectonics
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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