I am not invoking plate tectonics or crustal shifts.    From Wordnik.com.  [MBH98 Source Code: Cross-validation R2 « Climate Audit] Reference

There is extensive literature on crustal thermal gradients.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthreaded #19 « Climate Audit] Reference

The map includes crustal thickness and Moho topography views.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martian Map] Reference

Most phosphorus occurs in crustal rocks or in ocean sediments.    From Wordnik.com.  [AP Environmental Science Chapter 2- The Cycling of Matter] Reference

After glacial melt, crustal rebound occurred and is complete today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire] Reference

Hot Spot, crustal properties from new earthquake and magnetic data.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Articles on Yellowstone] Reference

Structural doming over an upper crustal magma body at Alid, Eritrea.    From Wordnik.com.  [references] Reference

Bacan is a mixture of volcanic inner island arc and some crustal materials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Halmahera rain forests] Reference

The formation of the escarpment is attributed to long past crustal uptilting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dong Phayayan Khao-Yai Forest Complex, Thailand] Reference

Mechanisms of crustal uplift and subsidence at the Yellowstone caldera, Wyoming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Articles on Yellowstone] Reference

The crustal rocks of its planetary body snapped and white-hot magma spewed forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starchild Omnibus]

However, the vast majority of carbon resides as inorganic minerals in crustal rocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [AP Environmental Science Chapter 2- The Cycling of Matter] Reference

Two of the earth's crustal plates, the Pacific and the Indo-Australian, collide here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westland temperate forests] Reference

The average concentration of an element in the crust is called its crustal abundance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural resource quality] Reference

The island also has some geological interest for its evidence of recent crustal cooling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malpelo Island Flora and Fauna Sanctuary, Colombia] Reference

Once again one of the crustal plates is subducted under the other producing earthquakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plate tectonics] Reference

Mountain belts are the result of tectonic processes that cause to crustal plates to collide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiography of the Earth's terrestrial surface] Reference

The crustal plates that are being moved by the forces of plate tectonics are really big, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Global Warming Causes Earthquakes.’ Suuuuure it does. | RedState] Reference

These hot spots have no direct relationships with areas of crustal creation or subduction zones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Volcano] Reference

Plate tectonics: Continents sit on moving crustal plates, so crustal plates move the continents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The latest from the World of Egnor - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

GPS data represented by arrows showing present crustal movement directions and relative magnitudes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crustal Movement and Religion] Reference

The diagram in Figure 2 illustrates the process of crustal creation and the magnetic striping process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plate tectonics] Reference

The tectonic movement of subducted crustal plates can generate enough heat (and pressure) to melt rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Igneous rock] Reference

This stage is characterized by crustal uplift because of isostatic rebound and block-faulting (Figure 5).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mountain] Reference

I'm pretty sure Iraq and Israel are on the same crustal plate, so this could be 100s of millions of years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Klein's scurrilous meltdown.] Reference

As to abiogenic hydrocarbons, it has been conclusively proven that they can form in deep crustal conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » A Great Example Why Peak Oil Theory Has Never Been That Compelling to Me] Reference