tectaunique (of the Greek "?.?. "or" tektMn "meaning builder, carpenter) is the study of the geological structures of kilometric scale and more (assembly lines, basins sedimentary, etc) and of the mechanisms which of it are responsible. This discipline is directly attached to the plate tectaunique. The principal studied processes are: phenomena of convergence when two tectonic plates approach: the subduction continent-ocean and ocean-ocean; the continental collision; phenomena of divergence when two plates move away: the oceanic divergence; the continental rifting; phenomena of transcurrence when two plates horizontally slip one against the other on the level of a transforming fault. The tectonic structures are formed in these three systems under the dominant effects of a compression in the convergent zones (the Alps, the Himalayas, etc), of an extension in the divergent zones (Rhenish ditch, great African rift, médio-oceanic dorsals, to Þingvellir, etc) and of a shearing in the areas transcurrentes (fault of San Andreas, fault north-Anatolian, etc). "the microtectonique one proposes to study the deformation on the scale of the outcrop, the sample and the thin blade, i.e. approximately since the scale of the millimetre until that of the meter" -- Mr. Mattauer, the deformations of materials of the Earth's crust, Hermann, 1980tectaunique
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