Tectonic

Tectonic/Volcanic Landforms Tectonic landforms usually dominate the scenery in any region that has experienced significant crustal disturbances, and this activity often shows as truly spectacular expressions in remote sensing images.

Tectonic plates Main article: Plate tectonics A map pointing out the Earth's major plates.

tectonic -- adj. Describing the forces that cause the movements and deformation of Earth's crust on a large scale, also describes the resulting structures or features from these forces.

Tectonic Plate, Tephra, Tertiary, Tetrahedron, Thermal Metamorphism, Transform Fault, Tsunami, ...

plate tectonics A theory of global tectonics according to which the lithosphere is divided into mobile plates. The entire lithosphere is in motion, not simply those segments composed of continental material. compare continental drift ...

A sedimentary or tectonic structure where oil and/or natural gas has accumulated. These are structural highs where a porous rock unit is capped by an impermeable rock unit.

The solid earth is in slow but constant motion (see plate tectonics) and earthquakes occur where the resulting stress exceeds the capacity of Earth materials to support it.

The PBO network is a geodetic observatory designed to study the three-dimensional strain field resulting from the Earth's tectonic movements between the Pacific and North American plates in the western United States.

The applications for this were numerous, from more accurate satellite orbiting, to more insight into the tectonics dynamics of the region, to enhancement in weapons accuracy requirements and targeting.

For example, true 3-D analysis (more than visualization) and temporal GIS should provide new insights to geophysicists studying plate tectonics and the dynamic forces operating beneath the earth's surface.

storm evacuation map See: map, storm evacuation subsidence Decrease in the elevation of land surface due to tectonic, seismic, or artificial forces, without removal of surface material.

See also: Image, Region, Area, Map, Plate