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Smectite clay is a major engineered "buffer" barrier in repositories for high-level radioactive waste since it provides the waste canisters with a low-permeable embedment that minimizes canister stresses caused by earth shocks and tectonics by being ductile and homogeneous.

More of the heat in Earth is lost through plate tectonics, by mantle upwelling associated with mid-ocean ridges.

Landforms of the drainage basin are highly influenced by tectonics, superimposed by fluvial and periglacial processes, and locally by glacial and aeolian processes.

Cosmogenic nuclides in stream sediments show that basin-wide erosion rates are controlled more strongly by tectonics than by climate.

This sedimentary framework and distribution patterns of facies are thought to have been controlled primarily by tectonics, and less by lake level and sediment supply.

Methane manifestation in the south of the Sakhalin Island is mainly related to thermogenic reservoirs as they are more often dislocate by tectonics, and crossed by active and permeable faults.

Eastern Indonesia is located inside the region of complex tectonics controlled by the motions of the Eurasia, Australia, Pacific, Philippine Sea, and numerous small plates (Fig. 1).

Flexural tectonics imposed by orogenic loading and dynamic subsidence are the most important controls on accommodation in the Karoo Basin (Catuneanu 2004).

Japanese seismologists of the early twentieth century made a number of significant contributions to geophysics, some of which anticipated plate-tectonic theory by decades.

Just off its coast is the Nazca plate, which rests below the south-eastern Pacific Ocean and slides beneath the South American tectonic plate by some 9 centimetres a year.

Therefore, the tectonic activities by the mascon loading should have ceased around 3.0 Ga.