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。

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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。

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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。

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The revolution is based on the work of scientists who study the movement of the continents a process called plate tectonics.

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He built a Sonic Pavilion in Brazil that records the sound of plate tectonics one year, and then created a video and performance piece on a barge in Greece the next.

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By the 1960s, scientists had developed a theory called plate tectonics explaining the locations of volcanoes and other large-scale geologic features.

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Plate tectonics, the formation of faults and the moving of the continental crust over a molten interior, is a characteristic unique to Earth and it meant that minerals evolved far beyond those on any other planet in the Solar System.

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