tectonic

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.