So, in recent years, some geologists have used plate tectonic theory to make what they call geopredictions.

因此，近年来，一些地质学家会利用板块构造理论来进行他们所谓的地质预测。

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The plate tectonic regime suggests the subduction sense from south to north.

板块构造体系说明洋壳俯冲极性从南向北。

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Plate tectonic analysis of basin systems interspersed in orogenic belts requires that the effects of approximation be carefully distinguished from those of separation.

分析造山带中盆地系的板块构造时，需要将靠近作用与分离作用仔细区分开来。

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Given all the discoveries that we have made from an up-close investigation of these ocean ridges, we can't help but wonder what we might find at the far end of the same plate tectonic cycle where seafloor is drawn back into the Earth's interior at deep-ocean trenches.

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Instead of occurring at a plate boundary along an area called a subduction zone, where one tectonic plate is diving beneath another, this earthquake occurred in the middle of an oceanic plate, where the faults in the crust essentially moved from side to side instead of up and down.

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Another piece to the puzzle: Both of these earthquakes occurred along opposite ends of the same tectonic plate, the Australian plate.

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