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contractional tectonics". In Scarselli, N.; Adam, J.; Chiarella, D. (eds.). Principles of Geologic Analysis. Regional Geology and Tectonics. Vol. 1 (2 ed

Body of salt water covering most of Earth Plate tectonics – Movement of Earth's lithosphere List of tectonic plate interactions – Types of plate boundaries

shape Earth's crust are called tectonics. While Earth is the only planet known to currently have active plate tectonics, evidence suggests that other planets

The geology of the Himalayas is one of the most dramatic and visible creations of the immense mountain range formed by plate tectonic forces and sculpted

gradual and sudden, over this deep time. It focuses on geological processes, such as plate tectonics, that have changed the Earth's surface and subsurface

geology have been the development of the theory of plate tectonics in the 1960s and the refinement of estimates of the planet's age. Plate tectonics theory

In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass

Anorogenic magmatism Strike-slip tectonics Thrust tectonics Park, R. G. (1997). Foundations of Structural Geology (3rd ed.). Psychology Press. p. 64

plate tectonics – Hierarchical outline list of articles related to plate tectonics List of rock types List of tectonic plates – Overview of tectonic plates

In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics. Typical rift features are