plate tectonics

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With the new algorithms, the scientists were able tosimulate global mantle flow and how it manifests as plate tectonics and themotion of individual faults.
使用新算法，科学家们能够模拟全球地幔流动以及它是如何显明板块构造和断层移动的。
It may seem nonsense to think of the (probably sceptical) intelligence with which you interpret these words as something on a par with plate tectonics or photosynthesis.
用这些文字来考虑（或者是怀疑）智力，看起来不能让人明白，这就像解释板块构造常说或者光合作用一样。
Some things which seem obvious now could not have been found without maps: that Brazil’s bulge fits neatly into West Africa’s dent, and so to the theory of plate tectonics, for example.
现在看来很明显的一些东西如果不借助地图可能无法发现，例如：巴西的凸起处与西非的凹陷处正好契合，进而到板块构造理论。

The revolution is based on the work of scientists who study the movement of the continents a process called plate tectonics.
Plate tectonics is the area of science that explains why the surface of the Earth changes and how those changes cause earthquakes.

Whether subterranean life could have ever created the kind of photosynthetic atmosphere without plate tectonics is open for debate.
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It also gave us plate tectonics, which continuously renews and rumples the surface.
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the study of how the surface of the earth is formed, how the separate pieces of it move, and the effects of this movement

Plate tectonics is the way that large pieces of the Earth's surface move slowly around.

板块构造
Geo-dynamic division method based on the theory of plate tectonics is a new way to conduct region prediction of mine dynamic phenomena.
地质动力区划以板块构造理论为基础，以区域构造形式为主要研究对象，以断裂的活动性、岩体的应力状态作为预测煤与瓦斯突出的主要判据，建立了煤与瓦斯突出的区域预测新方法。
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