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Tectonics   /tɛktˈɑnɪks/   Listen
Tectonics

noun
1.
The science of architecture.  Synonym: architectonics.
2.
The branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust.  Synonyms: plate tectonic theory, plate tectonics.



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"Tectonics" Quotes from Famous Books



... explanation of the phenomena of recumbent folds and their deferlement is to be obtained directly from the temperature conditions prevailing throughout the stressed pile of rocks; and here the subject of mountain tectonics touches that with which we were elsewhere specially concerned—the geological influence of accumulated ...
— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays • J. (John) Joly



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