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Definition of Tectonic movement
1. Noun. Movement resulting from or causing deformation of the earth's crust.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tectonic Movement
Literary usage of Tectonic movement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Landscape Archaeology in Southern Epirus, Greece 1 by James Wiseman (2003)
"It is true that relative sea level was more than three or four feet below current
sea level due to tectonic movement, but this does not imply that absolute ..."
2. History of Geology and Palæontology to the End of the Nineteenth Century by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1901)
"... Lower Austria and Southern Italy, Professor Suess showed conclusively that
earthquakes occur along the lines of tectonic movement in a mountain-system, ..."
3. History of Geology and Palæontology to the End of the Nineteenth Century by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1901)
"... showed conclusively that earthquakes occur along the lines of tectonic movement
in a mountain-system, and quite irrespective of any volcanic phenomena. ..."
4. History of Geology and Palæontology to the End of the Ninetheenth Century by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1901)
"... showed conclusively that earthquakes occur along the lines of tectonic movement
in a mountain-system, and quite irrespective of any volcanic phenomena. ..."
5. Bulletin by Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (1905)
"It is any period of erosion which begins in a movement of uplift and is brought
to a close by another tectonic movement either of elevation whereby erosion ..."
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