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What is tectonics?

What is tectonics? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) The study of crustal plates and other large-scale structural features of the Earth.
  2. (architecture) The science and art of assembling, shaping, or ornamenting materials in construction.
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A consideration of Rheic margin tectonics reveals several possible source terranes for silicic explosive volcanism.
Put the question to a group of geologists and they'll mention plate tectonics and volcanic hot spots.
To many they represent channels formed by submarine erosion and redeposition of the Chalk during relative sea-level falls, linked to tectonics.
In plate tectonics, a transform fault is a strike-slip fault extending throughout the lithosphere and joining any two other plate margins.
Moreover, holistic method has proved useful in the hard sciences, for example in the geological theory of plate tectonics.
The big bang theory, evolution, plate tectonics, and other scientific marvels fascinated me.

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