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Meaning of movimiento epirogénico by Jorge Luis Tovar Díaz





Jorge Luis Tovar Díaz

movimiento epirogénico
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Vertical movement of the Earth's crust to continental level which can affect large areas of the continental plates: platforms and cratons. They are movements of very slow, not sudden, ascent and descent that also may have as a consequence the bulge of the Earth's crust, fractures or cracks in rocks, etc.

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