tectonic force in a sentence

Examples

1. The planet apparently has a thick, rigid crust with none of the tectonic forces that stretch and shift Earth's crust.
2. Ages ago, tectonic forces pushed some of the old ones up onto dry land, where they eventually became premier mines.
3. The "'geological deformation of Iceland "'is the way that the rocks of the island of Iceland are changing due to tectonic forces.
4. Uplift continues due to faulting caused by tectonic forces, creating spectacular fault block escarpments along the eastern edge of the southern Sierra.
5. Several episodes of subsurface magmatism are known to have occurred subsequent to the collision, associated with tectonic forces affecting the entire Basin and Range Province.
6. The Hornby Mountains, near Falkland Sound have experienced tectonic forces of uplift and folding which has inclined the quartzite beds of Stanley to the vertical.
7. Later, as tectonic forces changed the land to tilt in different directions, the river changed the direction of its flow and became the modern Colorado.
8. In general, the forearc topography ( specifically in the trench region ) is trying to achieve an equilibrium between buoyancy and tectonic forces caused by subduction.
9. Its most ancient mountains, the Mediterranean and the creation of the Alps and Pyrenees were driven by tectonic forces which continue to this day in Iceland.
10. In the past, scientists using surface-based instruments could not discern tectonic forces at work below the surface, said Wayne Thatcher, a physicist at the Geological Survey.