🔤 Diastrophism ✨
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URDU
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Roman Urdu:
zameen ki teh-o-baala hone ka ammal (geology)
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ENGLISH
📚noun
diastrophism
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PRONUNCIATION
Standard: /daɪˈæstrəfɪzəm/
Phonetic: /dy as truh fiz um/
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DEFINITION
the large-scale deformation of the Earth's crust by natural processes, producing mountains, plateaus, and faults
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES
Geologists attribute mountain formation to millions of years of diastrophism.
Plates moving against each other cause dramatic crustal diastrophism.
Earthquakes and faulting are direct results of tectonic diastrophism.
The study of diastrophism helps map historical shifts in continents.
Ancient rock layers show severe warping due to intense diastrophism.
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SYNONYMS
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ANTONYMS
stabilization leveling
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