plate tectonics

noun

1. 板块运动；板块构造学
   the movements of the large sheets of rock (called plates ) that form the earth's surface; the scientific study of these movements

1. 板块构造（论）
   Plate tectonics is the way that large pieces of the earth's surface move slowly around.

1. Depression-Uplift structure is a basic structural unit developed on crustal surface, it is secondary structure and is superposed upon larger plate tectonics.
   坳陷构造是地壳表层的基本构造单元，它叠加在大的板块（或地块）构造之上，属于二级结构构造。
2. Plate Tectonics and Sea-floor Spreading
   板块结构与海床扩展
3. The theory of plate tectonics describes the motions of the lithosphere, the comparatively rigid outer layer of the Earth that includes all the crust and part of the underlying mantle.
   板块结构理论描述岩石圈的运动。岩石圈是相对坚硬的地球外层，包括全部地壳和部分地幔。
4. Archean geotectonic transition of systems from mantle plume to plate tectonics in North China
   华北太古宙从地幔柱体制向板块构造体制的转化
5. Likewise, the modern theory of plate tectonics holds that mountains work as stabilizers for the earth.
   同样，现代板块构造理论也支持山可以起到稳定地球的作用。
6. What does the theory of plate tectonics maintain?
   这板块构造学说的理论讲些什么？
7. This would effectively stop plate tectonics unless new subduction zones start up, but subduction initiation is poorly understood.
   除非新的俯冲带的形成，否则板块运动将会被有效的阻止。但是我们对俯冲带的形成知之甚少。
8. Olson is particularly interested in how the earth's core and mantle interact to produce geomagnetic fields, plate tectonics and deep mantle plumes.
   欧尔森对于地核与地函如何交互作用而产生地球磁场、块运动和地函深部的烟流特别感兴趣。
9. Geological record of Early Precambrian oceanic crust and its implication for plate tectonics
   早前寒武纪洋壳的地质记录及其板块构造意义
10. To promote solid earth sciences through development of plate tectonics and continental tectonics study
    深化大陆构造研究发展板块构造促进固体地球科学发展
11. In this paper, the author advocates a new dynamical theory of the Earth, attempting to unify plate tectonics and plume theories.
    论述了一个旨在统一板块构造学说和地幔柱学说的地球动力学理论。
12. Geologists describe the motion of the plates and the consequences of such motion as plate tectonics.
    地质学家把板块运动及这种运动所造成的后果看作是板块构造运动。
13. The theory of plate tectonics holds that the surface of Earth is composed of a dozen or so huge crustal slabs that float on a sea of partially molten rock.
    板块构造论认为，地球表面由十来个巨大的地壳板块构成，漂浮在浩瀚如海的部分熔岩上。
14. The implication of tectonic cycle in terms of plate tectonics theory is totally different from the one in early knowledge, which laid stress on uncomformity.
    板块构造理论中的构造旋回含义与早期经典的强调以不整合为基础的认识不同。
15. Changes like those seen in Scotland may mean that records of global sea levels on Earth, which track climate swings and plate tectonics, may need to be re-examined to take account of this mechanism.
    类似于苏格兰的这种变化可能意味着这些记录着气候变化和板块构造的记录，也就是地球的全球海平面记录，在将这种机制考虑进去之后可能需要被重新检验。
16. The idea of sea-floor spreading actually preceded the theory of plate tectonics.
    海床扩展说实际上早于板块结构理论。
17. Plate tectonics is now almost universally accepted.
    如今板块构造几乎被普遍接受。
18. This process has been happening naturally via plate tectonics at a very slow rate for many thousands of years.
    在几千年的时间里，这种板块运动的过程一直在自然地进行著，但速度非常慢。
19. The Early Precambrian Collisional Orogenic Process and Plate Tectonics: Chance and Challenge of Precambrian Geology
    早期碰撞造山过程与板块构造：前寒武纪地质研究的机遇和挑战
20. The surface, or crust, of the Earth is shaped by a process called plate tectonics.
    地球的表面，或者说地壳，由板块地壳构成。
21. The job of plate tectonics is to unravel the clues in that snapshot, to learn the dance steps, to determine where the dancers have been and where they are going.
    板块构造学的工作就是要揭示那快照的线索，了解它的舞步，确定舞蹈者曾去过和将要去哪里。
22. Plate tectonics, the geologic process responsible for creating the Earth's continents, mountain ranges, and ocean basins, may be an on-again, off-again affair.
    板块构造运动，这个一直被认为是创造地球大陆，山脉和海洋盆地的地质过程，很可能是一种分分合合的特殊事件。
23. In the theory of plate tectonics, one of the sections into which the earth's crust is divided and that is in constant motion relative to other plates, which are also in motion.
    板块在板块构造地质学理论中地壳被划分的几部分之一，它相对于其它板块处于持续的运动中，同时其它板块也在运动。
24. Amazing success of the plate tectonics pattern objectively gives rise to some negative effects.
    板块构造范例的惊人成功，在客观上产生了某种负面效应；
25. Plate tectonics as a field of study rests on the firm establishment of two essential discoveries.
    板块构造作为一个研究领域是以两个重大发现为基础的。
26. The gradual movement and formation of continents ( as described by plate tectonics).
    大陆的逐渐移动和形成过程（板块构造学的描述）。
27. Photo Gallery: Plate Tectonics An eelpout fish swims near tube worms at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Atlantic Ocean.
    板块构造图片美术馆。一条粘鱼类游近管蠕虫在中大西洋山脊在大西洋。
28. Plate Tectonics on the Relationship Between the Flora of the Southeastern China and the North America
    板块构造对我国东南沿海地区植物区系与东亚-北美间断分布的关系
29. According to the concept of plate tectonics, the South China Sea and its surroundings, the Southeast asiaregion, is the site of a major "triple junction" between three plates& eurasian, Pacific and Indo-Australian plates.
    从板块构造观点看来，南海及其周围整个东南亚大陆边缘恰好位于欧亚板块、太平洋板块和印度洋-澳大利亚板块交汇处，即处于一板块“三叉点”上。
30. Scientists have developed a theory, called plate tectonics, that explains why most earthquakes occur.
    科学家建立了一个能解释大多数地震发生的理论，叫做板块构造。

noun

1. the branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust

   Synonym:    tectonicsplate tectonic theory