Tectonophysics
Study of the physical processes that underlie tectonic deformation / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the scientific journal, see Tectonophysics (journal).
Tectonophysics, a branch of geophysics, is the study of the physical processes that underlie tectonic deformation. This includes measurement or calculation of the stress- and strain fields on Earth’s surface and the rheologies of the crust, mantle, lithosphere and asthenosphere.[1]