Tectonics
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Japan is located right alongside the Pacific Ring of Fire (active volcanoes) and also along the edges of plate
tectonics
, whose shifting will cause earthquakes and tsunamis (a Japanese term in itself for tidal wave).
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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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