"Tectonic changes" refers to significant and powerful shifts or transformations that occur gradually, like the massive movements of Earth's tectonic plates.
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«tectonic»
«changes»
Sentences with «tectonic changes»
- These experiments provide new insight into mechanisms of past climate changes on Earth, which have been driven in part by tectonic changes in ocean basins and consequent changes in ocean circulation and heat transport. (atmos.albany.edu)
- As for tectonic changes, basins growing at about the speed of a fingernail, again, don't have much potential for short term dramatic impact. (realclimate.org)
- Students today graduate with historic debt burdens while facing a profession undergoing tectonic changes. (legalproblemsolving.org)
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