Crossword-Solution: TECTONICS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tectonics | n. | The science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic sentiments and ideas. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “TECTONICS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Plate ___ (structural geology) | 1 answer |
| Science that adds art to utility. | 1 answer |
| Study of Earth's shifting crust | 1 answer |
| study of the earth's crust and the forces affecting it | 1 answer |
| the branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust | 1 answer |
| Geology concerning movement in earth’s crust | 1 answer |
| A SPECIALIST IN GEOLOGY | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TECTONICS (5)
And this is because it is not always that the products of even exquisite tectonics can excite or refine the aesthetic sense.
Received thus in frugal quantity, through many generations, that world of Asiatic tectonics stimulates the sensuous capacity in them, accustoms the hand to produce and the eye to appreciate the more delicately enjoyable qualities of material things.
Peal and flash and thrill and scent and savour Pulse through rhythm to rapture, and control,-- Who shall say how far along or finely?-- The infinite tectonics of the soul.
Not all of his money was in joint accounts for he was too knowledgeable of the changeable tectonics of family to believe that joint ventures of any kind were lifelong.
Griggs._)] [Illustration: Scientists conducting field studies on active volcanoes in the United States.] [Illustration: Field studies.] [Illustration: Field studies.] [Illustration: Field studies.] Volcanoes and the Theory of Plate Tectonics [Illustration: Major tectonic plates of the Earth.] Only a few of the Earth’s active volcanoes are shown.
Quotes with TECTONICS (3)
We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I’m tired of this shit. I’m tired of f-ing Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycl…
If the students were taught about shuttle flights, plate tectonics and submarine volcanoes, they were also immersed in the traditional myths of their culture — the ancient story, for example, of how the island of Pohnpei had been built under the direction of a mystical octopus, Lidakika. (I was fascinated by this, for it was the only cephalopod creation myth I had ever heard.
Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back into the atmosphere. Without this slow speed carbon cycle, Earth's temperatures would cool dozens of degrees below your comfort zone.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1967–2021).