tectonics

Converse of object

• understand: Through understanding plate tectonics, we have banished much of the mysticism surrounding natural hazards.
• drive: The lecture also seeks to provide answers to questions such as, how quickly plates move and what drives plate tectonics?
• include: After formation is complete, the surfaces of planets continue to be modified by surface processes including tectonics and volcanism.

Converse of subject

• cause: The Indian Ocean tsunami ( tho caused by earth tectonics ) showed how vulnerable the developing world is to massive natural disasters.

Adjective modifier

• extensional: The aim is to assess the structural geometries and hence the mechanisms of continental extensional tectonics.
• active: For deformations in the upper continental crust, high quality data may be extracted from geomorphological studies of active tectonics.
• global: This synoptic coverage of global tectonics is for the past 1 million years.
• regional: However, relatively few studies have attempted to unravel the local and regional scale tectonics of Iran.
• compressional: During the Mesozoic, most of central and western Thailand was affected by large, left lateral wrench faults and compressional tectonics.
• continental: Studies of the Indo-Asian collision have produced two contrasting views of continental tectonics.

Modifies a noun

• theory: There is also a history of plate tectonics theories, including information about Alfred Wegener and his theory of continental drift.

Noun used with modifier

• plate: A study of the world's major plates gives insight into recent finding about the action of plate tectonics.
• thrust: A similar type of chronology applies to the other pioneering area for thrust tectonics - the NW Highlands of Scotland.

Possessives

• earth: That was no way God's will, that was just the Earth's tectonics messing up.