tectonism in a sentence

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1. Ridges may have been formed by several processes, including tectonism and extrusion, or they may be buried crater-rim segments.
2. In addition, they appear to run both upslope and downslope, suggesting that the plains were warped by regional tectonism after channel formation.
3. The initial metamorphism of the Ocoee Supergroup occurred about 400 million years ago as the result of Ordovician-Silurian tectonism during the Taconic orogeny.
4. Models also suggest that certain topographic features of the Himalayan and Andes region are determined by an erosional / climatic interaction as opposed to tectonism.
5. The river originates from the high hills of the Western Ghats and the influence of tectonism can be evidenced from the stream pattern and presence of structural valleys.
6. However, in other cases where rate of tectonism is mild or very slow, evidences mainly comes from morphotectonic investigations, which may demarcate the areas for detailed field investigations.
7. The occurrence of a lake capture is mainly controlled by the water balance at the lake's basin and the changes in topography due to erosion, sedimentation, and tectonism.
8. Typically, tectonism has flattened, stretched, indented, and fractured the pebbles and associated matrix of the Roxbury Conglomerate to the point that it often has the appearance of flow structure.
9. It is a region of ancient dark material that has been broken apart by tectonism and is now surrounded by younger, brighter material that has been upwelling from Ganymede's interior.
10. The effects of extensive tectonism are shown by the presence of " normal faults ", where the crust has sunk in one area relative to the surrounding rock, and superficial fractures.