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Tectonics in sentence

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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.
Africa was actually disconnected from the other landmasses at that time, due to the vagaries of plate tectonics, floating around the Indian Ocean.
We know Earth is unique for having plate tectonics, liquid water on its surface and an oxygen-rich atmosphere.
The rocks older than this have been either destroyed or highly deformed through plate tectonics.
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.
Mountain ranges, plate tectonics, moves the continents around, forms ore deposits.
Due to rather dubious plate tectonics, Japan starts to slip under the sea.
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).
A seismologist I'm not, but what little I know about plate tectonics tells me that the forces driving the plates are such as to defy any merely human intervention.
The minerals and rare-earth elements that we exploit to build ingenious devices – extending our bodies and minds – are also a part of this rhythm, and are accessible only because of a great chain of circumstances, from planetary origins to plate tectonics and asteroid impacts.
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.