The geology of the UK is complex and diverse, a result of it being subject to a variety of plate tectonic processes over a very extended period of time.
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According to the conventional view in geology, volcanoes passively build up from lava and ash erupted above fissures or tectonic processes is quite blurry, with significant interplay between the two.
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The typical, present-day, escarpments have emerged since the Neogene geological period, after the Upper Rhine Rift Valley was formed as a result of plate tectonic processes about 30 million years ago.
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The origin of TTG suites is debated; their chemistry is similar to modern-day subduction zone magmas, but there is disagreement as to whether modern plate tectonic processes operated during the Archaean.
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He has introduced methods of analysis and criteria which permit separation of the effects of local tectonic processes and the present-day rate of change of the quantity of water in the oceans.
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Some argue that continents are accretionary crustal " rafts " that, unlike the denser basaltic crust of the ocean basins, are not subjected to destruction through the plate tectonic process of subduction.
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The Asia-India collision is one of the most interesting tectonic events of the last 100 million years, and the Himalaya play a critical role as a laboratory to many people studying tectonic processes.
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Turkey's varied landscapes are the product of a wide variety of tectonic processes that have shaped Anatolia over millions of years and continue today as evidenced by frequent earthquakes and occasional volcanic eruptions.
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The Cenozoic era ( since 66 million years ago ) is characterized with active tectonic processes, the definitive formation of the Balkan Mountains, the formation of grabens and horsts in Rila, Pirin and Kraishte region.
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These rigid blocks were transformed to a metamorphic base due to tectonic processes such as continental collisions which cause horizontal pressure, friction and distortion in the Caledonian plate cycle as well as the Variscan plate cycle.
