crustal movement

1. 1.

   movement resulting from or causing deformation of the earth's crust

   Synonymstectonic movement

   Broadermovement

   geology

Questions about crustal movement

What does crustal movement mean?

crustal movement means "movement resulting from or causing deformation of the earth's crust".

What is another word for crustal movement?

Close synonyms include tectonic movement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crustal movement a common word?

crustal movement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.