The earthquakes in New Zealand are evidently of the tectonic type.
Although Japan is also especially noted for its volcanic activity, its earthquakes are almost entirely of the tectonic type, or are due to the slipping of the land at faults in the earth's crust.
That this quake was of the tectonic type became evident, when several faults were found in the ground afterwards.
That this quake was of the tectonic type was evident from the great fault that was formed.
As can be seen from a few quotations of well-known authorities, only two kinds of earthquakes exist; namely, volcanic earthquakes and tectonic earthquakes.
Many of the types of tectonic and volcanic lakes which have been described are characteristic of humid and arid regions alike.
The tectonic features of the globe were fixed at the beginning.
In all respects, tectonic earthquakes differ widely from the Ischian shocks.
A series of after-shocks, more or less long, is a constant attendant on every great tectonic earthquake, and few are the earthquakes of any degree of strength that can be regarded as completely isolated.
The principal features in which they resemble one another, and differ from the average tectonic earthquake, are the coincidence of the epicentres, the small depth of the foci, and the sudden onset of the principal shock.
That tectonic earthquakes are closely connected with the formation of faults seems now established beyond doubt.
Distinctions, so great as these are, evidently remove the Ischian shocks from the category of tectonic earthquakes.
The oldest and simplest form remained always in use down to Christian times; it is that used on the large tectonic monuments of the Augustan age (e.
There is, for instance, the fact that animals often show a premonition of volcanic or tectonic disturbances.
In a picture of the seismic activities of the earth which is to comprise phenomena of this kind, the volcanic or tectonic effects cannot be attributed to purely local causes.
In this work the author still strives to remain within the frame of the tectonic and machine-theory, but the edges are already showing signs of giving way.
And Driesch holds it to be impossible to distribute a complicated tectonic among the elements of an equipotential system.
Further, the earthquake at Lisbon, if the tectonic theory is valid, might, taking the character of the region into consideration, have been occasioned by a slide.
The tectonic theory is of geological origin, and properly supplanted the older Plutonic theory of Humboldt, which was only an unverified supposition.
All this speaks so emphatically against the tectonic origin of earthquakes that it can not be considered as a general cause.
This fact constitutes a very strong objection to the tectonic theory of earthquakes, and thus the very depths of the earth speak against it.
There are, however, some serious objections to the tectonic theory of earthquakes, plausible as it may seem.
In addition to the tectonic and volcanic types, there are occasional earthquakes of minor importance which may be referred to the collapse of the roof of caverns, or other falls of rock in underground cavities at no great depth.
In the present paper the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is considered as a morpho-tectonic unit defined in terms of morphology, and therefore its definition is not based on a closed isobath.
The southern half of the group appears to resemble volcanic cones, while in the northern half tectonic deformation seems to have played a larger part.
However, the correlation of so many types of geophysical and geological data speaks favorably for the validity and tectonic significance of the physiographic provinces described here.
The parallelism of the Mid-Ocean Canyon with the Mid-Atlantic Ridge even suggests a tectonic origin.
The sea-floor topographic trends of the eastern part of the plateau are parallel to the known tectonic and volcanic trends of the Azores Islands (Agostinho, 1937).
The tectonic map of the Atlantic prepared in this manner will be presented in a subsequent publication.
The Azores Plateau or bulge is generally considered as a highly fractured tectonic uplift in which vulcanism has played a comparatively small part (Cloos, 1939).
This is not merely because the waters of them are absorbed in irrigation, but because there is a well-ascertained tectonic action at work which is slowly raising the level of the plain.
It is here that the psychodynamics of humanity - the tectonic clash between Rome and Byzantium, West and East, Judeo-Christianity and Islam - is still easily discernible.
A crossroads of fault lines, a confluence of tectonic clashes - the Balkan always obliged.
They owe their formation to tectonic movements, subsidences of the surface.
In the change of conviction of these eminent geologists we have the strongest proof of the convincing nature of the observations and the reality of the tectonic features upon which the recent views are founded.
It is easy to see that the areas over which the satellite exerted its gravitational stresses must become the foci --foci of linear form--of tectonic developments or crust movements.
An important tectonicprinciple underlies the development of the phenomena we have just been reviewing.
The evidence for this is mainly tectonicor structural; but is partly forthcoming in the changes which the materials now open to our inspection plainly reveal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tectonic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: architectural; formal; morphological; organic; structural
