tectonics
processes that control the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time
extensional tectonics
geologicial processes associated with the stretching of a planetary body's crust
thin-skinned deformation
style of deformation in plate tectonics at a convergent boundary which occurs with shallow thrust faults that only involves cover rocks (typically sedimentary rocks), and not deeper basement rocks
thick-skinned deformation
crustal shortening that involves basement rocks and deep-seated faults
diastrophism
plastic deformation of the lithosphere
cataclasis
metamorphic process associated to faults
thrust tectonics
tectonic processes associated with the shortening and thickening of the crust