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Or see plate tectonics.
Tectonics, (from the
Greek for "builder",
tekton), is a field of study within
geology concerned generally with the structures within the
crust of the
Earth (or other
planets) and particularly with the forces and movements that have operated in a region to create these structures.
Tectonics is concerned with the
orogenies and tectonic development of
cratons and tectonic terranes as well as the
earthquake and
volcanic belts which directly affect much of the global population. Tectonic studies are also important for understanding
erosion patterns in
geomorphology and as guides for the
economic geologist searching for
petroleum and
metallic
ores.
A subfield of tectonics that deals with tectonic phenomena in the
geologically recent period is called
neotectonics.
Tectonic studies have application to
lunar and planetary studies, whether or not those bodies have active tectonic plate systems.
Since the
1960s,
plate tectonics has become by far the dominant theory to explain the origin and forces responsible for the tectonic features of the continents and ocean basins.
There are three main types of tectonic regime
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