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diastrophism
noun
(di-as-tro-phism)
tectonism
diastrophism
noun
(di-as-tro-phism)
the process of deformation that produces in the earth's crust its continents and ocean basins, plateaus and mountains, folds of strata, and faults —called also diastrophism
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