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petrotectonics, n. pl. (const. as sing.) Geol.|ˌpɛtrəʊtɛkˈtɒnɪks|
[f. petro- + tectonics, repr. G. petrographische tektonische analyse.]
The study of the structure of rocks, esp. as a guide to the movements to which they have been subjected. Cf. petrofabrics n. pl.
1933Amer. Jrnl. Sci. XXV. 433 (heading) Petrotectonics. Ibid. 439 Sander uses the word petrotectonics to express the branch of the investigation that deals with the relation of the oriented microscopic fabric of deformed rocks to their tectonic history. 1937Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. XCIII. 581 The science of Gefügekunde, variously translated as petrofabrics, petrotectonics, or structural petrology, is understood to comprise a study of all the spatial data, macroscopic and microscopic, which go to form a complete vector-picture so far as this is legible in the make-up of the rock. 1974Nature 10 May 107/3 Evidence supporting the composite nature of Asia has been adduced from palaeomagnetism, palaeontology, geology and petrotectonics.
So ˌpetrotecˈtonic a.
1933Amer. Jrnl. Sci. XXV. 470 The ultimate test..will be the study by petrotectonic methods of material that has been deformed under known stress conditions. 1970Internat. Geol. Rev. XII. 361/2 The internal petrotectonic structure of the intrusive body, which was established by systematic study of the orientations of the planar and linear parallelism, primary jointing, chromite and durite segregations and so forth, is folded and..corresponds to the folding of the host rocks. |