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  2. Tectonics - Wikipedia

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    Extensional tectonics is associated with the stretching and thinning of the crust or the lithosphere.This type of tectonics is found at divergent plate boundaries, in continental rifts, during and after a period of continental collision caused by the lateral spreading of the thickened crust formed, at releasing bends in strike-slip faults, in back-arc basins, and on the continental end of ...

  3. List of tectonic plates - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of tectonic plates on Earth's surface. Tectonic plates are pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle , together referred to as the lithosphere . The plates are around 100 km (62 mi) thick and consist of two principal types of material: oceanic crust (also called sima from silicon and magnesium ) and continental crust ( sial ...

  4. Glossary of geology - Wikipedia

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    Also called Indianite. A mineral from the lime-rich end of the plagioclase group of minerals. Anorthites are usually silicates of calcium and aluminium occurring in some basic igneous rocks, typically those produced by the contact metamorphism of impure calcareous sediments. anticline An arched fold in which the layers usually dip away from the fold axis. Contrast syncline. aphanic Having the ...

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    List of The A-Team characters; List of Adrian Mole characters; List of fictional anarchists; List of angels in fiction; List of fictional Antichrists; List of fictional assassins and bounty hunters; List of autistic fictional characters

  6. Lists of fictional characters by work - Wikipedia

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    List of Where the Red Fern Grows characters; List of characters played by multiple actors in the same film; List of fictional cats in film; List of fictional primates in film; List of films with LGBT characters; List of The Godfather series characters; List of minor characters in The Matrix series; List of original characters in The Hobbit film ...

  7. Outline of plate tectonics - Wikipedia

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    Plate tectonics (from Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós) 'pertaining to building') is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.

  8. Plate tectonics - Wikipedia

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    Tectonic plates are able to move because of the relative density of oceanic lithosphere and the relative weakness of the asthenosphere. Dissipation of heat from the mantle is the original source of the energy required to drive plate tectonics through convection or large scale upwelling and doming.

  9. Tectonite - Wikipedia

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    S-tectonites (from the German, Schiefer for schist) have a dominant planar fabric and may indicate a flattening type of strain. This may also be due to a lack of minerals capable of giving a lineation e.g. in a phyllonite.