Sentences with word «tectonism»

«Maybe there's been active tectonism that helped shape the landscape,» she says.

Two points: first, it seems to me that such gravity - induced tectonism provides a far better, and less problematical, explanation for climate variations with Milankovitch cyclicities, including cyclical ice ages, than radiative forcing does.

Aside of that, I would assume that terrestrial volcanoes are more dependent on plate tectonism than sea floor spreading per se.

While their surfaces show evidence of recent deformation — tectonism — neither planet has plate tectonic activity because neither planet has a surface divided into plates.

«surficial erosion / deposition (as at Titan), crater relaxation (as at Enceladus), crustal recycling or tectonism (as at Europa), or some combination of these processes.»