Tectonic studies are important as guides for economic geologists searching for fossil fuels and ore deposits of metallic and nonmetallic resources. An understanding of tectonic principles can help …

The meaning of TECTONIC is of or relating to tectonics. How to use tectonic in a sentence.

Plate tectonics is the scientific understanding of how large, contiguous blocks of the Earth’s outermost layers—the crust and the uppermost mantle—move and interact with one another. Plate tectonics …

In this study, we use new geodetic GNSS (also known as GPS) measurements from many stations on the Arabian Peninsula to provide updated information about the motion of the Arabian plate relative …

Very important or urgent (Definition of tectonic from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

tectonics, scientific study of the deformation of the rocks that make up the Earth’s crust and the forces that produce such deformation.

6 days ago · tectonic (not comparable) Of or relating to construction or to architecture. (biology) Structural. (geology) Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth 's (or a similar …