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- Main types of tectonic regime
- Extensional tectonics
- Thrust (contractional) tectonics
- Strike-slip tectonics
- Plate tectonics
- Other fields of tectonic studies
- Salt tectonics
- Neotectonics
- Tectonophysics
- Seismotectonics
- Impact tectonics
- Planetary tectonics
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Tectonics ( via Latin ) are the processes that result in the structure and properties of Earth's crust and its evolution through time. The field of planetary tectonics extends the concept to other planets and moons.
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