tectonic

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.