In a tectonic way or manner. / In a fundamental way. / (geology, seismology) Involving tectonic plates.

The deformation of the Earth's crust due to tectonic activity.

(geology) The study of crustal plates and other large-scale structural features of the Earth. / (architecture) The science and art of assembling, shaping, or ornamenting materials in construction.

Of or relating to construction or to architecture / (biology) Structural / (geology) Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's (or a similar planet's) lithosphere

(geology) Modification (of rock) by a tectonic process

(geology) Modified by a tectonic process

(geology) To modify a rock by a tectonic process

simple past tense and past participle of tectonize

plural of tectonism

plural of tectonization