diastrophism: Quick Facts

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continental drift fault isostasy crustal thinning crustal shortening burial subsidence uplift epeirogeny downwarping plate tectonics earthquake seafloor spreading volcanism seismicity supercontinent continent How do earthquakes occur?How do tectonic plates move?

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