The Earth is just too unusual a place, they insisted, with its stable orbit, nearby moon, watery surface, plate tectonics and unique position in the galaxy.
"It will enable us to say something really definitive about the tectonics and geology of the region, which is something nobody has been able to do before, " Lloyd said.
This unusual approach gives Mr Pohl the freedom to delve into an extraordinarily diverse range of topics, including the operation of neutrino observatories, the physics of rainbows, the principles of plate tectonics, and how to search for fossils in your office's marble lobby.
The divide was a massive, sprawling boundary not determined by politics, religion, or war but by tectonics, granite, and gravity.
The latter is made up of six different instrument stations that gather data on plate tectonics, hydrothermal vents and deep sea creatures.
Together with our colleagues of the INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) focus area group on palaeoseismology and active tectonics, IGCP 567 started a new tradition of joint field workshops.
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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.
It also gave us plate tectonics, which continuously renews and rumples the surface.
By the 1960s, scientists had developed a theory called plate tectonics explaining the locations of volcanoes and other large-scale geologic features.
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.
Geological processes, such as plate tectonics, erupting volcanoes, advancing glaciers and river networks, have altered Earth's surface over billions of years.
Unlike on Earth, however, Mars has no plate tectonics, so the Martian layers are flat and not disrupted as they would be on Earth.
Scientific approaches and techniques of different disciplines are to be employed, such as tectonics, paleogeography, paleontology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, structural geology, petrology, geochemistry, paleomagnetism, and geophysics.
Some things which seem obvious now could not have been found without maps: that Brazil's bulge fits neatly into West Africa's dent, and so to the theory of plate tectonics, for example.
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After gorging on bear meat, the expedition's scientists bring back evidence that helps prove the controversial theory of continental drift, which gives rise in due course to the science of plate tectonics, which explains why it was that Krakatoa blew itself up--and will do so again, in eons hence.
Three and a half miles high, with no evidence of folding, faulting, or plate tectonics, it was like nothing on Earth.
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