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tectonics

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Also known as geotectonics

field of geology devoted to tectonic processes

Wikidata facts

Subclass of
dynamic geology
Part of
geology
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Continental Drift (740 million-to-Today).gif
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topic's main category
Category:Tectonics
is the study of
tectonics
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Encyclopedic overview

Map of Earth's 16 principal tectonic plates

Convergent:   Collision zone

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tectonics” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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