plate tectonicsin a sentence
- The continents sit on slabs of rock, called tectonic plates, and those plates float on a sea of molten lava.† (source)
- "You may think tectonic plates have nothing to do with you, Miss Keenan!" he yelled.† (source)
- But for Mortenson's swaying school on wheels, the collision of tectonic plates that had occurred in this zone millions of years earlier was more to the point.† (source)
- It will be a colossal cultural collision, a grinding together of the tectonic plates that are East and West.† (source)
- The book was about how Eldridge and some other scientists had gone down to the bottom of the ocean in a submersible and discovered hydrothermal vents at the places where tectonic plates met, which spewed mineral-rich gases reaching up to 700 degrees.† (source)
- Like most scientists, I believe that involuntary laws of nature explain the behavior of planets, tectonic plates, weather systems, and viruses.† (source)