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active, experiencing earthquakes, volcanic activity, mountain-building, and oceanic trench formation. Tectonic plates are composed of the oceanic lithosphere...

caused by the movement of the Earth's tectonic plates, human activity can also produce earthquakes. Activities both above ground and below may change...

earthquakes per year are seen in this region due to the constant tectonic activity, making the Aleutian islands the most seismically active area in the...

geography of East Africa is often stunning and scenic. Shaped by global plate tectonic forces that have created the East African Rift, East Africa is the site...

tectonic activity, a modified nutrient supply, or global cooling. The dispersed positions of the continents, high level of tectonic/volcanic activity...

which lead to vertical displacement such as tectonic activity, and isostatic adjustments. Tectonic activity leads to vertical displacement when crust is...

and dying trees in some areas. Ghost forests can also result from tectonic activity. In the Pacific Northwest, there is a large, active subduction zone...

fully known, but it is speculated that this may be the result of tectonic activity due to tidal heating. Next are the dark regions that cover about a...

civilizations could be found on the Moon and Mars, where erosion and tectonic activity are less likely to erase evidence. The concept of pre-human civilizations...

Laguna Salada (Spanish, "salty lagoon") is a vast dry lake some 10 meters below sea level in the Sonoran Desert of Baja California, 30 km (19 mi) southwest...

Tectonic uplift is the geologic uplift of Earth's surface that is attributed to plate tectonics. While isostatic response is important, an increase in...

example, river formation as a result of tectonic uplift), the opposite (erosional effects on tectonic activity) has only recently been addressed. The primary...

mountains running down western North America. Since then, further tectonic activity and erosion by glaciers have sculpted the Rockies into dramatic peaks...

in the form of deformed volume of the Earth's crust in a region of tectonic activity. This then becomes an earthquake once triggered by a nuclear explosion...

likely caused by tectonic activity in the region. The Ouachita Orogeny occurred during the Late Mississippian, leading to tectonic activity in the region...

The Burma Plate is a minor tectonic plate or microplate located in Southeast Asia, sometimes considered a part of the larger Eurasian Plate. The Andaman...

allochthons and outer highs. Because most stresses relate to the tectonic activity of moving plates, most motion between blocks is horizontal, that is...

sea level. The dominated uplift movement of neotectonic and recent tectonic activity deeply influenced this area, and the present landscape of sea-islands...

and recent sea-level change. Knickpoints are formed by the influence of tectonics, climate history, and/or lithology. For example, uplift along a fault...

Tectonics (from Latin tectonicus; from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós) 'pertaining to building') are the processes that result in the structure...