What does tectonic mean in geography?

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Tectonic in Geology, Science, means the seismic and structural features of earth that are related to plates of the earth crust floating on the magma, these shifting and causing p_ compression (fast travel) and S wave surface, slower through the earth crust, tremors, the flow in subduction of rock and water under mass such as the Andean front, the structural planes in rock that shift and to some extent the hydrogeologic flows, volcanic, water vapour and chemical changes (exchange of mineral compound elements and melt and reformation) in fact any feature that causes rock structure to form and subside or rise, flip of plate in the Indian ocean, graben slip in southern Africa, plate collision Arabian, Deccan slip, montane basin and mountain building, deep root rest, shear planes such as the Pacific rift and sea volcano, but mostly structure and pressure. Heat systems (volcano, magma shifts) and oil usually associate with tectonic events and so does water, Haiti cholera post earthquake, mountain slides Afghanistan, Kashmir, some of these cause shock. It has been hijacked by the nuclear industry for shock tactics, but it is Geology mostly too great for our control although we could limit earthquake damage in many ways. We can research and petrology assists that, some tectonic events are too deep seated for any but seismic studies and others have to rely on extrusions of minerals and surface exposed structure plane interface to get an essay on tectonic formations, let alone a complete understanding. Piece by piece since about 1907 Scotland Geike Peach Horne and Gunn NW Highlands metamorphic systems have leaped ahead as igneous intrusions and fault intersections were unravelled, you can read recent reports in Krabbendam et al on the Traligill and Moine Thrust and others on Assynt. The Canadian Shield and African structures at this moment offer the great challenges due to complexity, yet there is plenty more such as the Mexico City basin sediment liquefaction and the Turkey block, currently causing difficulties. "Plate tectonics" is the usual referral, that is 3D and materials, structure. Geography is the spatial interaction of phenomena on the surface of the earth, the effects tectonics may on occasion have direct influence socially on physical and human patterns, the requirements for amelioration of damage and general good resource control and use, otherwise tectonic effects are involved in forming the general resource and are studied by experts to assist ability. MD Stagg Geology hydrology soils UCW 1969 BScWales enjoy it, good work to do and it stretches the mind to the limit in concept and practice.