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199: 35:. It may move from one place to another because of a tectonic shift, and they may also be rotated. A tectonic block may have a proper name for example, the Muness Phyllite Block (which is located in 240: 233: 53:
Continental regions may be subdivided into tectonic blocks which are mapped in order to determine earthquake risk.
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Faure, Michel; Lepvrier, Claude; Nguyen, Vuong Van; Vu, Tich Van; Lin, Wei; Chen, Zechao (January 2014).
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McCaffrey, R.; Bird, P.; Bormann, J.; Haller, K.M.; Hammond, W.C.; Thatcher, W.; Wells, R.E.; Zeng, Y.
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Flinn, D. (1 May 2009). "A Tectonic Analysis of the Muness Phyllite Block of Unst and Uyea, Shetland".
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Early use of the term tectonic block referred to the blocks of rock on either side of a fault.
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is a part of the Earth's crust that can be treated as a solid rigid
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crustal block
lithospheric section
faults
Unst
Uyea
South China Block
doi
10.1017/S0016756800067741
"The South China block-Indochina collision: Where, when, and how?"
doi
10.1016/j.jseaes.2013.09.022
"Earthquake Forecasts"
doi
10.1126/science.29.734.121
JSTOR
1635153
PMID
17730301
"Appendix A—NSHMP Block Model of Western United States Active Tectonics"
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