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Diastrophism

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Noun
  1. 1
    The deformation of the Earth's crust to form the continents, mountains and other large features countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's crust wordnet

Etymology

From dia + strophism.

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