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This unique addition to reference literature provides an introduction to the major concepts and contemporary issues that are essential for students of environmental science and environmental studies to know. With over 200 entries authored by world-class names like Anthony Brazel, John Day and Edward Keller, this text is divided into six sections: Environmental Science, Environments, Paradigms & Concepts, Processes & Dynamics, Scales & Techniques, and Environmental Issues.
Tectonics
Tectonics
In the AGI Glossary tectonics is defined as:
A branch of geology dealing with the broad architecture of the outer part of the Earth, that is, the regional assembling of structural or deformational features, a study of their mutual relations, origin, and historical evolution. It is closely related to structural geology, with which the distinctions are blurred, but tectonics generally deals with the larger structures
Tectonic style is defined as ‘the total character of a group of related structures that distinguishes them from other groups of structures in the same way that the style of a building or art object distinguishes it from others of different periods or influences’; graben as ‘an elongate, relatively depressed crustal unit or block that may or may not be geomorphologically expressed ...
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