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Executive summary The US domestic crude oil grades market has seen a tectonic shift in the first quarter of 2020 in response to the global demand and supply shocks that flowed from the COVID-19. Tectonic plates are able to move because the Earth's lithosphere has greater mechanical strength than the underlying asthenosphere. Lateral density variations in the mantle result in convection; that is, the slow creeping motion of Earth's solid mantle. This animation shows the plate tectonic evolution of the Earth from the time of Pangea, 240 million years ago, to the formation of Pangea Proxima, 250 millio. Tectonic shift is the movement of the plates that make up Earth’s crust. The Earth is made up of roughly a dozen major plates and several minor plates. The Earth is in a constant state of change. Earth’s crust, called the lithosphere, consists of 15 to 20 moving tectonic plates.

Etymology[edit]

1650s, in sense of building, from Late Latintectonicus, from Ancient Greekτεκτονικός(tektonikós, “pertaining to building”), from Ancient Greekτέκτων(téktōn, “carpenter, joiner, maker”), from Proto-Indo-European*tek-(“to make”) (from which also texture). In sense of geology, attested 1894.^[1] Surface analysis is τέκτων(téktōn) +‎ -ic(“pertaining to”).

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tectonic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to construction or to architecture
2. (biology)Structural
3. (geology) Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's lithosphere
4. (figuratively)momentous, utter, vast
   • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     But it would be a mistake to imagine that we are benignly coming full circle, or even that we are finding that the old ways are still the most efficient. A tectonic shift has occurred.

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1. ^ Douglas Harper, “tectonic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2021.

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Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Tectonic Shift Madam Secretary

From Frenchtectonique

Tectonic Shift Idiom

Adjective[edit]

Tectonic Shifter

tectonicm or n (feminine singulartectonică, masculine pluraltectonici, feminine and neuter pluraltectonice)

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Tectonic Shift Explanation Youtube