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Plate techtonics is a process that’s so gradual, there aren’t even minor changes over the scale of millions of years.
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Do you stare at the rocks in your garden and mock plate-techtonics?
Blast From the Past 2010
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JPG or can become subducted under the subduction zone - where a plate goes under another plate through plate techtonics.
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I think the brains of those societies probably gravitated to these two fields because they could actually work without too much ideological interference--though even physicists had to put up with the ideological opposition to plate techtonics.
More Cool Work By Hainmueller and Hiscox, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Forgive me but that's a little like saying you want calculations and data to refute some crackpot claim that relativity is wrong or that plate techtonics is wrong.
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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Earthquakes do form patterns, as they are correlated with plate techtonics and fault lines, as indicated in, e.g.,this chart, or this.
The myth of the "Earthquake Line" in China Sun Bin 2008
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These include quantum mechanics, special relativity, atomic strucure of matter, plate techtonics, and general relativity.
A Word About Intelligent Design Creationism - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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When I took my first historical geology course at Tulane, back in the day, we of course studied plate techtonics and continental drift.
Adrift 2007
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By your definition, not only is evolution not science, but then neither is astronomy, plate techtonics, cosmology, archaeology, and a host of other areas.
The Poynter Center on "Intelligent Design, Science Education, and Public Reason" - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Tidal gauges measure tide not techtonics hence the difference between the San Fransisco Tidal Gauge and the Crescent City Tidal Gauge.
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