Formed by a tectonic process called tilted block faulting, the mountains were once the container for vast inland lakes.

This means the young channels must be formed by tectonic processes.

But he said the subsidence could be through compaction of near-surface sediment or from deeper tectonic processes.

They have a lot of the images tagged by categories such as mass wasting, tectonic processes, fluvial processes, and others.

Lacking any knowledge of tectonic processes, he had struggled to explain how the fossils might have been deposited by a series of great global floods.