Wilson's analysis of these data is now a central part of plate tectonics.
威尔逊对这些数据的分析现在是板块构造学的核心部分。
Then in 1963, in the early days of the development of the theory of plate tectonics.
然后是在1963年，在板块构造理论发展的早期。
There is a considerable overlap between Wegener's concepts and the later widely embraced plate tectonics theory.
魏格纳的概念与后来被广泛接受的板块构造理论之间有相当大的重叠。
However, plate tectonics cannot fully explain certain massive surface features, such as the "superswell" of southern Africa, a vast plateau over 1,000 miles across and nearly a mile high.
然而，板块构造不能完全解释某些巨大的地表特征，例如非洲南部的“superswell”，即一个直径超过1000英里、高度接近1英里的巨大高原。
Earth's internal heat, fueled by radioactivity, provides the energy for plate tectonics and continental drift, mountain building, and earthquakes.
地球内部因放射而产生的热量为板块运动、大陆漂移、造山运动和地震提供了能量。
With the new algorithms, the scientists were able tosimulate global mantle flow and how it manifests as plate tectonics and themotion of individual faults.
使用新算法，科学家们能够模拟全球地幔流动以及它是如何显明板块构造和断层移动的。
This makes carbonate sediments on the floor of the ocean that are subducted back into the Earth though plate tectonics.
这样在海洋表面的碳酸盐的沉积物通过板块构造返回地球中。
Here Earth's crust pulls apart, and upwelling magma cools and forms new crust that spreads away from the ridge in the great recycling process known as plate tectonics.
地壳在这里碰撞挤压，上涌的炙热岩浆变冷，又形成了新的地壳，这种伟大的循环过程就是所谓的板块构造。
Signs of compression in the planet's plate tectonics even suggest that cooling has actually caused it to shrink over time.
行星的盘状构造的压缩标志甚至暗示，冷却已经导致它随着时间在收缩。
Pangaea began to break apart about 225 million years ago due to geological processes related to plate tectonics, which eventually spread Earth's landmasses into the continents we see today.
泛大陆大约于22.5亿年前由于板块构造的地理过程而发生了分离，最终将地球上的各大陆块分成了今天所看到的大陆。
Earth's biggest advantage comes from having plate tectonics that stabilize the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that keeps Earth warm.
地球最大的优点在于板块构造，这些构造能够平衡大气层中二氧化碳的数量，使地球保持温暖。
Dr. Michael Blanpied: Yes, our understanding of plate tectonics gives us extremely useful clues on why earthquakes occur where they do, and where earthquakes are likely.
迈 ：是的，我们对版块地质构造学的了解为我们提供了极其有用的线索：地震为什么会发生在那个地方，地震最有可能发生在哪些地方。
It is in fact this cooling which powers the slow circulation of the mantle, and through that the endless remaking of the surface through plate tectonics.
事实上，这种冷却过程为地幔的缓慢流动提高了动力，驱使着板块运动，实现无止境地重塑地球表面。
With the ocean lost, Venus could not kick-start plate tectonics.
随着海洋的消失，金星可能再也不能进行板块重组了。
"It had been thought thatthe majority of energy associated with plate tectonics is released when platesbend, but it turns out that's much less important than previouslythought," Gurnis says.
能量的大部分曾被认为与板块弯曲时板块结构被释放的过程有关，然而结果显示其并没有原先想象得那么重要。
Why this elaborate analogy with plate tectonics and continental drift?
为什么要煞费苦心地拿板块学说和大陆漂移来进行类比？
Scientists realized that plate tectonics might explain not only the drifting apart of continents but also the cause of earthquakes.
科学家发现，板块构造不仅能够解释大陆的漂移，而且能够解释地震的成因。
According to the forecast of the researchers, the net effect of plate tectonics, makes Oahu continue to grow in 150 million years.
根据研究人员的该项预测，板块构造的净效应，将使得瓦胡岛在150万年内继续增长。
The job of plate tectonics is to unravel the clues in that snapshot to learn the dance steps to determine where the dancers have been and where they are going.
板块构造学的工作就是要揭示那快照的线索，了解它的舞步，确定舞蹈者曾去过和将要去哪里。
Forecast islands future changes at the same time need to consider plate tectonics.
预测岛屿未来的变化同时需要考虑板块构造。
Now considered part of Africa, Madagascar split from what's now India about 94 million years ago. (Learn about plate tectonics.)
马达加斯加岛如今是非洲的一部分，9400万年前，它从今天印度所在的位置分离出来。
Earthquakes are a result of that process. Plate tectonics is the area of science that explains why the surface of the earth changes and how those changes cause earthquakes.
地震就是这种运动的一个结果。行星构造一个解释为什么地球表面会变化和这些改变怎样导致地震的一个科学领域。
Plate tectonics explores primarily the motion of lithospheric blocks and belongs to the category of dynamic geotectonics.
板块构造学主要在于探索岩石田块体的运动，属于动力大地构造学范畴。
The tectonic magmatism suggests that the plate tectonics had operated in the north margin of Songnen Massif in the Neoproterozoic.
这一构造-岩浆作用暗示着松嫩地块北缘在新元古代板块构造体制就开始运行。
Scientists have developed a theory, called plate tectonics, that explains why most earthquakes occur.
科学家建立了一个能解释大多数地震发生的理论，叫做板块构造。
The research work consequently experienced geosyncline theory period and plate tectonics theory period.
以后的研究经过了地槽理论阶段和板块构造理论阶段。
The research work consequently experienced geosyncline theory period and plate tectonics theory period.
以后的研究经过了地槽理论阶段和板块构造理论阶段。
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