| Geologists have devised a number of clever ways to reconstruct the past movements of tectonic plates. |
| This suggests the existence of a comparatively long-lived quiescent tectonic regime over that interval. |
| Both tectonic stress and gravitational loading by overburden can produce pressure dissolution. |
| However, the interrelationship between tectonic activity, global sea level change, and the change of paleogeography played a significant role. |
| The metamorphic core complex is thus formed as mid-crustal rocks are exhumed by tectonic unroofing in an extensional setting. |
| In some cases, escarpments occur where there is no obvious lithologic or tectonic origin. |
