tectonic 的定义
- of or relating to building or construction; constructive; architectural.
- Geology. pertaining to the structure of the earth's crust.referring to the forces or conditions within the earth that cause movements of the crust.designating the results of such movements: tectonic valleys.
tectonic 近义词
等同于 structural
更多tectonic例句
- Some say that hardened extremists are often beyond reach until a tectonic shift in their own lives forces self-reflection.
- The Americas are moving away from Europe and Africa by a few centimeters each year, as the tectonic plates underlying those continents drift apart.
- Earth’s happens to include the powerful cycle of plate tectonics.
- We’ll be looking back at transformative moments in science over the last century, starting in this issue with the emergence of the theory of plate tectonics in the 1960s.
- Setting aside the tectonic political moment, there’s plenty of activity inside the world of startups we need to discuss.
- But even without help from a restless tectonic plate, folks in the Napa Valley get easily agitated.
- Some time ago, say a few million years ago, several tectonic plates collided.
- Mars has no tectonic plates—no continents, in other words—and no ginormous moon.
- Underneath our feet tectonic plates shift, magma bubbles, water boils, and both regularly erupt.
- This here is tectonic heat, a contrast hitting at the heart of why we love sport in the first place.
- That tectonic earthquakes are closely connected with the formation of faults seems now established beyond doubt.
- In all respects, tectonic earthquakes differ widely from the Ischian shocks.
- Distinctions, so great as these are, evidently remove the Ischian shocks from the category of tectonic earthquakes.
- An important tectonic principle underlies the development of the phenomena we have just been reviewing.
- In the tectonic structure of Asia the Kuen-lun forms, as it were, the backbone of the continent.