different between tectonic vs subductive

English

Etymology

1650s, in sense of building, from Late Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (tektonikós, “pertaining to building”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (tékt?n, “carpenter, joiner, maker”), from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“to make”) (from which also texture). In sense of geology, attested 1894. Surface analysis is ?????? (tékt?n) +? -ic (“pertaining to”).

Adjective

tectonic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to construction or to architecture
2. (biology) Structural
3. (geology) Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's lithosphere
4. (figuratively) momentous, utter, vast

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• concetti

Romanian

Etymology

From French tectonique

Adjective

tectonic m or n (feminine singular tectonic?, masculine plural tectonici, feminine and neuter plural tectonice)

1. tectonic

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subductive (comparative more subductive, superlative most subductive)

1. (geology) Of, related to, or caused by tectonic plate subduction
   • 1999, Peter Wilton Johnsont, Glyphs and Gallows: The Rock Art of Clo-oose and the Wreck of the John Bright, Heritage House Publishing (1999), ?ISBN, page 43:

     [Vancouver Island's] long, thin land mass was pushed up from the seabed to heights of over 7,000 feet by the relentless, subductive grinding of the Pacific Plate, which is slowly slipping beneath the continent upon which Canada stands.

   • 2000, Richard C. Selley, Applied Sedimentology, Academic Press (2000), ?ISBN, page 355:

     These typically occur in subductive troughs and it is apparent, both from their petrology and regional setting, that graywackes are often derived from the rising island arcs of volcanic origin.

   • 2009, S.B. Bhagwat, Foundation of Geology, Volume 1, Global Vision Publishing House (2009), ?ISBN, page 539:

     The proposed land-based subductive waste disposal method disposes of waste in a subduction zone accessed from land, and therefore is not prohibited by international agreement.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:subductive.