plate-tectonic
- a word derived from plate tectonics.
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"We analyzed a compilation of thermal history models in function of plate-tectonic models for the Tethys Ocean evolution, as well as deep-time precipitation and mantle-convection models."
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
The distinctive east–west shear zones that transected the region were, they said, sutures left by the most ancient plate-tectonic collisions on our planet, during the early Proterozoic eon, which began around 2.5 billion years ago.
From Nature • Feb. 5, 2018
In the ridge-push/slab-pull model, which is the one that has been adopted by most geologists working on plate-tectonic problems, the lithosphere is the upper surface of the convection cells, as is illustrated in Figure 10.29.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
A terrane is a distinctive block of crust that is now part of a continent, but is thought to have come from elsewhere, and was added on by plate-tectonic processes.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
She thinks plate-tectonic theory, though correct in many respects, has had considerable bosh swept under it.
From Time Magazine Archive
