How to pronounce “tectonics” in English

Plate tectonics shapes our world—literally.

Plate tectonics isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, and neither is our massive, magnificent planet.

Plate tectonics, the idea that the continents were all together and one thing, you can see-- if you look at the map, you

We think plate tectonics may have been really important for life on Earth, for the evolution of complex life on Earth.

So what plate tectonics does is, because it fosters more volcanism, is that you're gonna get carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere, which warms the planet up

of processes like plate tectonics, or the geographical distribution of different resources, the circulation of the atmosphere high above our heads, which gave us

But although plate tectonics here created us as a species, we didn't remain in our cradle.

And we have plate tectonics, as most people know, especially living in LA, you probably know too well-- there was an earthquake last night

It's called clay tectonics where our modern climate really wasn't established until 4 million years ago-- very near.

about pulsars and plate tectonics and evolutionary biology and pollution in the environment, it was not analyzed often by, by statisticians.

- Why do you think plate tectonics might be useful for the formation of complex life?

So the fact that you had plate tectonics supercharged evolution in some sense, you know.

Hydrothermal vents are created by plate tectonics: the theory that earth’s outermost layer is broken up into chunks, called tectonic plates, that move across the mantle.

We got way more into plate tectonics in an earlier episode.

With the discovery of plate tectonics, geologists finally recognized Earth as one big, interconnected system.

An unrelenting process of plate tectonics and continental drift tore apart the supercontinent to create the Americas, Africa, Eurasia.

If we understand the fundamental plate tectonics of the ocean floor, you've got spreading centers where new sea floor is being created.

So yeah, plate tectonics has been happening for a long time, keeping the earth’s surface in constant motion for something like 3 billion years.

This was a major point in favor of plate tectonics theory.

Regardless, knowing about plate tectonics helps us prepare our communities for disasters like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis.

And we don’t know how long plate tectonics will last.

I’m talking about the theory of plate tectonics: the idea that massive plates make up the earth’s outer layer and slip and slide and smash together,

They have not been disturbed very much by tectonics.

And then they drifted apart owing to plate tectonics.

Last episode, we talked about plate tectonics, the idea that Earth’s outer layer— the lithosphere— is broken up into plates that are moved around by heat from Earth’s mantle and gravity.

But as we know, plate tectonics doesn’t just push the land together.

It took decades—and many lines of evidence— for the theory of plate tectonics to develop and gain consensus.

Next time, we’ll talk about how plate tectonics builds mountains.

See, forces like weather and plate tectonics cause Earth’s materials to constantly move and change.

The mountain range here was crumpled up in the previous cycle of supercontinent building-- plate tectonics, a whole chapter before Pangaea and the last one

Because they looked at the ground and looked at the rocks and the tectonics and all this stuff and said, wait a second.

And if it wasn't for the fact that we had kind of an active plate tectonics, which had a lot of volcanism on it,

really got a boost from the fact that suddenly there this new vigorous form of plate tectonics.

So, you know, plate tectonics, the evolution of oxygen, of an oxygen atmosphere, which only happened because of life,

And today, we're looking more closely at how plate tectonics has created the landscapes around us.

Dwayne’s favorite: “Shrek 2.” Today, we know that plate tectonics shaped the planet we know and love.

Next time, we’ll learn about one of the most groundbreaking theories in geology: plate tectonics.

influence on the course of human history, so aspects of plate tectonics, and continental drift, or the circulation of the atmosphere high above our heads, or where different natural resources can

We are, very literally, children of plate tectonics.

And you know that's all about plate tectonics, the movement of the continents.

So those details really will matter of what's going on in there because that will determine whether or not you have, say, for example, plate tectonics.

And it turns out, as I was doing the reading for this, that Earth, probably early on, had a more mild form of plate tectonics.

The beginning of, I think the term is orogenesis, mountain-building, the true, Himalayan-style, giant mountains didn't happen until this more robust form of plate tectonics

And it shows you that those details, as we were talking about, like, do you have to know about the planet, do you have to know about plate tectonics?

The bottom of the ocean is a maze of slopes, trenches, and formations that show us plate tectonics in action.

Our planet is full of wild, weird, and wonderful features, thanks to the forces of plate tectonics.

And those currents power important forces that move Earth’s plates, in one big, geologic slow dance called plate tectonics.

One day, when the earth gets old enough to cool way down inside, plate tectonics will come to a stop, reshaping the world in a big way, one last time.

And the landscape of that Rift Valley, of that feature of plate tectonics of Africa tearing itself apart, is you have a very low valley