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It shifted the Earth's tectonic plates, sped up the planet's rotation and literally shortened the length of the day.
And the same thing about tectonic plates.
But this conclusion would ignore a tectonic shift taking place in Egypt far from the cameras in Tahrir Square.
And there are features that look tectonic.
But tsunamis are caused by energy originating underwater, from a volcanic eruption, a submarine landslide, or most commonly, an earthquake on the ocean floor caused when the tectonic plates of the Earth's surface slip, releasing a massive amount of energy into the water.
In plate tectonic theory, we knew that if you had plates collide, it made sense: they would crush into one another, you would thicken the crust, you'd uplift it.
We were living through a time of tectonic shifts in ideologies, in politics, in religion, in populations.
The consequences of this tectonic change will be felt everywhere.
So while you may not be thinking about weather patterns in the South Pacific, tectonic geology, or fluid mechanics, the art of catching the perfect wave relies on all these things and more.
Earth’s crust is made from several vast, jagged slabs of rock called tectonic plates, each riding on a hot, partially molten layer of Earth’s mantle.
So, that gives you an idea of the tectonic events or volcanic events which have happened on that planet.
This is closely related to tectonic and volcanic activity of planets.
No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity.
I've been there six times: Four times I did work with National Geographic, making tectonic plate measurements; twice, I went with NASA doing remote sensing devices.
I'm going to layer in on top of this the tectonic plates.
The age of the ocean, the tectonic plates, gives rise to a totally new phenomenon that we have heard about in this conference.
It's coincident with the tectonic plate, the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate.
The tectonic plates of world politics were shifting.
In most cases this would simply be called tectonic shifting on steroids.
A few years later, he is working with his friends Sam Dalton (Bruce McGill) and Rodney Bedecker (Wil Wheaton, from Star Trek), when he detects an abnormal movement of the tectonic plates, provoked by Alan's new enterprise.
After the initial "shock" that the world only has the time left for the plate to move another 20 cm or so I said to myself, "Okay were is the villain because the movie can't rely only on an evil-moving tectonic plate."
In this one, the world's tectonic plates are jarred out of alignment and sets the world on a fiery collision course with the apocalypse.
The plot: the earth's tectonic plates are all screwed up, and a colonel has to place a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles to set the plates back the right direction.
I have a DVD binder called "Inside The Earth," which contains about a dozen films with the same basic plot: scientists must use "futuristic" drilling machine thingy to drive into the center of the Earth to save the planet by either a) realigning tectonic plates b) setting off nuclear bombs c) allowing volcanoes to explode, thus relieving pressure, etc. or some such babble that makes no sense at all.
There is some kind of complication involving nuclear testing that results in a shift of the tectonic plate that runs through Southern California (the plate boundary is the San Andreas Fault).
Such tectonic shifts are jarring enough for the large powers that bring them about; for smaller countries, they can be even more disorienting.
An article in The Far Eastern Economic Review proclaims that “Wall Street’s crack-up presages a global tectonic shift: the beginning of the decline of American power.”
Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea has triggered unintended tectonic shifts in international politics.
Emerging economies’ ability to provide the growth lubrication that facilitates adjustment in industrial countries is also a function of the latter countries’ willingness to accommodate tectonic shifts in the operation and governance of the global economy.
But it has nothing to do with the significance and complexity of the tectonic historical forces now grinding their way forward, straining – and beginning to tear asunder – the region’s political landscape.
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