{"id":12591,"date":"2023-06-28T02:36:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T21:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12591"},"modified":"2025-04-01T20:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:42:50","slug":"tectonic-deformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tectonic-deformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tectonic Deformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Tectonic Deformation:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It refers to the <strong>changes and movements<\/strong> that occur within the <strong>Earth&#8217;s crust<\/strong> due to tectonic forces.<\/li>\n<li>The Earth&#8217;s lithosphere, which is composed of the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle, is divided into several large and small tectonic plates.<\/li>\n<li>These plates are in constant motion and interact with each other at their boundaries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key Findings:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers suggested that tectonic activities may have played a role in the <strong>extinction of the Vedic Saraswati River<\/strong> that once flowed through the region.<\/li>\n<li>The Piedmont zone of Haryana is actively deforming and could become <strong>a future seismic hazard zone.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Piedmont zone <\/strong>(a transition zone between the rugged mountains and the relatively flat plains) between the Ghaggar and Yamuna River basins showed signs of active tectonic deformations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are fold mountains?<\/h3>\n<p>These are formed as a result of tectonic deformation. They are created when rocks undergo intense pressure and are subjected to compressional forces, typically at convergent plate boundaries. The compressional <strong>forces cause the rocks to fold and buckle, resulting in the formation of large-scale folds and uplifted mountain ranges.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/blog\/science-technology\/our-study-shows-growing-zone-of-active-tectonic-deformation-in-northern-haryana-plains-south-of-himalayas-90254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Our study shows a growing zone of active tectonic deformation in northern Haryana plains south of Himalayas<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tectonic deformation refers to the changes and movements that occur within the Earth&#8217;s crust due to tectonic forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}