Jessica Henwick

I went snorkeling between tectonic plates in Iceland's Silfra fissure in the winter. You have to wear thermal layers and a wet suit and what's called a 'teddy-bear suit' so you don't die of hypothermia. My lips still went blue. That was an experience that I will carry with me for the rest of my life - so beautiful and so quiet.

English Actress

Adam Hamilton

Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.

American Clergyman

Mark Pincus

The overall tectonic shifts that are going on in games and more broadly in media are that everything is moving to becoming free, social, and accessible. But we're just at the beginning of that. We can get to a day where short-session play can enhance, if not replace, text messaging as a way to stay in touch with people.

American Businessman

Seth Shostak

Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back into the atmosphere. Without this slow speed carbon cycle, Earth's temperatures would cool dozens of degrees below your comfort zone.

American Scientist

Andrea Leadsom

I don't think the U.K. should leave the E.U. I think it would be a disaster for our economy, and it would lead to a decade of economic and political uncertainty at a time when the tectonic plates of global success are moving.

British Politician

Robert Duncan

Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion.

Sarah Weinman

If you think the shifting tectonics of world history might make for a juicy crime fiction backdrop, the last decade or so has proved you right.

American Journalist

Virgil Abloh

I'm a kid from Chicago. I know what it was like to see Obama become president. We felt the tectonic plates of the world shift.

American Designer

Carson Daly

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

American Entertainer

Charlie Kirk

Candace Owens has caused a tectonic shift in the political landscape.

American Activist

Use 'tectonic' to describe movements that shape the Earth, like earthquakes.

Earth's Surface Movements

'Tectonic' often refers to the edges of Earth's plates where they meet and interact.

Plate Boundaries

In geography, 'tectonic' is technical and linked to Earth's structure and processes.

Geography Term

Use 'tectonic' to describe huge changes that affect a system or organization profoundly.

Massive Impact

'Tectonic' can describe significant shifts in culture, politics, or society.

Social and Political

It's metaphorically used to highlight the enormity of change, not just geographical.

Metaphorical Usage

 The speed and direction in which these tectonic plates move depends on the temperature and pressure of the asthenosphere below. Scientists are still trying to nail down the driving forces behind this movement, with some theories pointing towards mantle convection, while others are examining the influence of the Earth's rotation

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 shaking violently, or even splitting apart. But that's not really how it works. For one thing, most buildings are not located right on a fault line, and the shifting tectonic plates go much deeper than building foundations. So what's actually going on? In fact, the reality of earthquakes and their effect on buildings

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 stuff that we think is so great for life we need to change our habits people we need to do that and you know the other thing is that the planets great explorations great oceanography is wonderful plate tectonics fantastic climate change the sciences you know it's it's it's a wonderful science it

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 We wanted to ask the very specific Why is it that the carbon dioxide that comes out of this deeply buried oceanic tectonic plate is only coming out of the volcanoes? Why don't we see it distributed throughout the entire subduction zone? Do the microbes have something to do with that?

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 slabs of land called tectonic plates that float on the superheated magma that makes up most of the planets interior magma is the Earth's lifeblood churning restlessly beneath the crust and wherever it can it's trying to burst through it's at these spots that

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 the world, the situation of the globe. The default image on the object would probably be a high-resolution Earth image. But then one could interact with that and show plate tectonics or global warming issues, or migrations --

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 the rock formations are known as karst for millions of years seashells and sediments fell to an ancient sea floor forming solid rock tectonic activity raised the resulting limestone above water later rain fallen rivers carved

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 known to have sparked life, and the only system able to provide life support for human beings. So why Earth? We know Earth is unique for having plate tectonics, liquid water on its surface

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 across the world though countless others are on the ocean floor most volcanoes whether on land or underwater are located where tectonic plates meet in fact the ring of fire a path that

 tectonic boundaries in the darkness of the deep water gushes through cracks in the earth's crust known as deep sea vents