tectono-comb. form

1959 Geosci. Abstr. July 5/1 The author..theoretically proves the possibility of using scale models in tectonophysics.

1960 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 71 1255/1 To Soviet specialists, tectonophysics is a scientific trend dealing with investigations into the physical mechanism of tectonic deformations. Investigators in other countries use the term in a broader, less definite sense.

1971 Nature 26 Nov. 185/2 Geophysics as a discipline covers everything from cosmic rays to seismology by way of..tectonophysics and geomagnetism.

1960 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 71 1255 (heading) Tectonophysical investigations.

1979 Nature 8 Feb. 495/1 Recently I have been involved in tectonophysical research in the Witwatersrand collar sequence of the Vredefort dome.

1957 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 68 642/1 The various tectonophysicists..have sought to explain the mechanism of the deep-focus earthquakes associated with island arcs.

1978 Nature 26 Oct. 733/1 The mechanism by which stress is released in intermediate and deep focus earthquakes is of particular interest to seismologists and tectonophysicists.

1926 G. W. Tyrrell Princ. Petrol. i. 2 The inaccessible heavy interior [of the earth] is known as the barysphere. This is followed outwardly by the lithosphere, the thin, rocky crust of the earth... Other zones have been distinguished and named for special purposes... The zone in which crustal movements originate has been named the tectonosphere by certain continental geologists.

1949 R. W. Van Bemmelen Geol. of Indonesia IA. iv. 283/2 The tectonosphere comprises three shells: the sial-, salsima- and sima- layers.

1971 M. H. P. Bott Interior of Earth vii. 220 It is a well-established facet of isostatic theory that the weak asthenosphere is overlain by a relatively strong lithosphere (or tectonosphere) about 50–100 km thick.

1971 Nature 24 Sept. 246/2 The geology of the Scotia Arc region can be simplified by emphasizing what seem to us to be the fundamental tectonostratigraphic units.

1976 Nature 9 Sept. 117/2 Taking..the tectonostratigraphic evidence into consideration..an alternative model [of the origin of the Himalaya], based on plate tectonics, involving microcontinents, is suggested here.

1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xxii. 323/2 It seems likely that the relative paucity of major deposits of these ores is due to the modifying and/or dissipating influences of younger tectono-thermal activity.

1976 Nature 8 Apr. 516/2 It is significant that there is, as yet, no evidence for pre-Dalradian tectonothermal events affecting the Central Highland Granulites.