rifting
Tectonic plates diverging
Rifting is the geological process by which the earth's crust pulls apart, creating a rift valley or eventually an ocean basin.
The East African Rift is actively rifting today.
The term also applies to relationships or groups splitting apart: The band was rifting over creative differences.
In gaming, rifting may refer to traveling through dimensional portals.
Submarine volcanic mountain range
- plate tectonicsEarth's crust mobility theory
- lithosphereCrust plus upper mantle
- asthenosphereDuctile upper mantle layer
- grabenDowndropped block between faults
horst · volcanism · faulting · uplift · subsidence · extensional · thermal expansion
Emotional separation between people
- schismFormal organizational fracture
- breachBreaking of agreement
- severanceTermination pay or disconnection
- fractureSplit in hard material
split · division · falling out · breakdown · rupture · discord · disunion · parting
Involuntary rhythmic shaking
- faultlineCrustal fracture zone
- seismicRelating to ground tremors
- magnitudeSize or scale
- epicenterPoint above seismic origin
aftershock · displacement · seismology · P-waves · S-waves · shockwave · fracture · stress
mid-ocean ridge
Submarine volcanic mountain range
- plate tectonicsEarth's crust mobility theory
- lithosphereCrust plus upper mantle
- asthenosphereDuctile upper mantle layer
graben · horst · volcanism · faulting · uplift · subsidence · extensional · thermal expansion
estrangement
Emotional separation between people
- schismFormal organizational fracture
- breachBreaking of agreement
- severanceTermination pay or disconnection
fracture · split · division · falling out · breakdown · rupture · discord · disunion · parting · alienation
tremor
Involuntary rhythmic shaking
epicenter · aftershock · displacement · seismology · P-waves · S-waves · shockwave · fracture · stress · strain
- geologybedrock, fault lines, faults, rock, basalt
- Earth processesplate tectonics, erosion, weathering, volcanism, sedimentation
- plate tectonicstectonic plates, plate tectonics, plate boundaries, subduction, subduction zones
- geological processesweathering, erosion, sedimentation, metamorphism, crystallization
- ocean geologyseafloor, seabed, ocean basins, ocean floor, ocean basin
- tectonicsplate tectonics, tectonic plates, tectonic plate, subduction, plate boundaries
riftingcollision
Forceful contact between objects
convergence · subduction · compression · suturing · converging