global tectonics

American  

plural noun

1. earth movements and interactions on a global scale, especially as they relate to the causes and results of the dynamics of the crustal plates and sea-floor spreading.

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Etymology

Origin of global tectonics

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

“It’s a brilliant insight,” says Brendan Murphy, a geologist at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, who studies global tectonics and was not involved in the study.

From Scientific American

Barley, M. E., Bekker, A. & Krapez, B. Late Archean to early Paleoproterozoic global tectonics, environmental change and the rise of atmospheric oxygen.

From Nature

In 1968, Dr. Oliver, Dr. Isacks and another former graduate student of Dr. Oliver, Lynn Sykes, wrote a paper, “Seismology and the New Global Tectonics,” that put together earthquake evidence from around the world that made a convincing case that continental drift — now called plate tectonics — was indeed occurring.

From New York Times

It's not the same fault, it's a consequence of the same bit of global tectonics, which is the collision of India with Asia.

From BBC